The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2021

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/582) to—

(a) introduce limited exemptions from the requirements imposed by those Regulations for—

(i) specified persons (other than foreign government officials or representatives) invited by the Foreign Secretary to the United Kingdom to conduct official business,

(ii) essential workers (other than seafarers, such as engineers) for the operation of ferry services,

(iii) in-flight security officers (commonly known as sky marshals),

(iv) certain categories of senior executives,

(v) persons invited to attend the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship Final;

(b) update the list of category 1 and 3 countries in Schedules 1 and 3 (the green and red lists);

(c) exclude foreign border personnel working at juxtaposed controls in England (e.g. at St Pancras) and passengers transiting to Guernsey, Jersey or the Isle of Man via England from the requirement to possess a day 2/8 testing package on arrival;

(d) remove an operator’s liability for bringing a passenger who has not completed a Passenger Locator Form or is not in possession of a negative pre-departure test result to England if that passenger is being lawfully compelled to travel in the course of an extradition, prisoner transfer or deportation;

(e) update the list of sporting events in Schedules 5 and 11;

(f) revise the onboard public health announcement on commercial passenger conveyances arriving in England;

(g) add the Dominican Republic and Tunisia to the list of countries, in paragraph 4 of Schedule 13, from which direct passenger flights are generally prohibited unless landing at Birmingham Airport or Heathrow Airport; and

(h) change the designated terminal at Heathrow Airport for handling passengers on such flights from terminal 3 to terminal 4.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument. An explanatory memorandum has been published alongside this instrument at www.legislation.gov.uk.