The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Amendment No. 10) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2021 No. 84

Public Health

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Amendment No. 10) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

Made

26th March 2021

Coming into operation

at 4.00 a.m. on 27th March 2021

The Department of Health(1) makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25B and 25F(2) of the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967(2).

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Amendment No. 10) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 and shall come into operation at 4.00 am on 27th March 2021.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020(3).

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

2.  The principal Regulations are amended in accordance with regulations 3 and 4.

Amendment to regulation 4

3.  In regulation 4 (requirement to self-isolate), in paragraph (12)(e), after “36A” insert “or 40”.

Amendments to Schedule 2

4.  In Part 2 of Schedule 2 (persons not required to comply with regulation 4), after paragraph 39, insert—

“40.— (1) A person engaged in film and high end TV production where—

(a) Northern Ireland Screen has nominated and the Department for the Economy has approved both the production and the person engaged in production for the purposes of this paragraph,

(b) Northern Ireland Screen has committed to investing at least £1 million in the production,

(c) Northern Ireland Screen has confirmed that the presence of the person in Northern Ireland is essential to the production,

(d) the person provides, on arrival in Northern Ireland, written evidence from the Department for the Economy, that the person satisfies the definition of a person engaged in film and high end TV production for the purposes of this paragraph.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—

(a) a person is engaged in film production if engaged in the making of a film which is a British film for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the Films Act 1985(4),

(b) a person is engaged in high end TV production if working on the making of a television programme which is a British programme for the purposes of Part 15A of the Corporation Tax Act 2009(5).”.

Transitional and saving provision

5.  In relation to any person who arrived in Northern Ireland before the coming into operation of these Regulations, the principal Regulations apply as if the amendments made by regulations 3 and 4 had not been made.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 26th March 2021

(L.S.)

Dr Naresh Chada

A senior officer of the Department of Health

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020 No. 90) (“the principal Regulations”) to—

(a) in relation to exemptions from the requirement to self-isolate in regulation 4 of the principal Regulations, introduce an exemption for persons engaged in film and high end TV production in Northern Ireland, whereby persons engaged in such productions are not required to self-isolate when carrying out the relevant work/activity.

No impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations.

(1)

Formerly the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety; see 2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s. 1(5)

(2)

1967 c. 36 (N.I.). Part 1A was inserted by section 48 of, and Schedule 18 to, the Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7)

(3)

S.R. 2020 No. 90 as amended by S.R. 2020 Nos. 138, 140, 154, 155, 163, 168, 179, 185, 189, 193, 194, 200, 203, 212, 216, 223, 228, 234, 241, 243, 244, 254, 275, 278, 289, 326, 344, and 355 and S.R. 2021 Nos. 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 17, 32, 39, 54 and 69

(4)

1985 c.21 Schedule 1 was substituted by the Finance Act 2006 (c. 25) and has been subject to a large number of amendments by the Corporation Tax Act 2009 (c. 4) and S.I. 2006/643, 2006/3430, 2012/1809, 2015/86 and 2018/1105

(5)

Part 15A was inserted by paragraph 1 of Schedule 16 to the Finance Act 2013 (c.29)