The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2021

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 826 (W. 193)

Public Health, Wales

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2021

Made

at 11.54 a.m. on 12 July 2021

Laid before Senedd Cymru

at 4.45 p.m. on 12 July 2021

Coming into force

at 4.00 a.m. on 14 July 2021

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 45B and 45P(2) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984(1), make the following Regulations.

Title and coming into force

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2021.

(2) These Regulations come into force at 4.00 a.m. on 14 July 2021.

Amendments to the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) Regulations 2020

2.  In Schedule 4 (specified sporting events) to the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) Regulations 2020(2), at the end insert—

“European Tour – Cazoo Open,

R & A – The Curtis Cup,

Red Bull Hardline,

The Tour of Britain”.

Amendments to the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Pre-Departure Testing and Operator Liability) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

3.—(1) The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Pre-Departure Testing and Operator Liability) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021(3) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 5 (requirement to ensure passengers possess notification of a negative test result), after paragraph (2)(a) insert—

“(aa) who is being lawfully compelled to travel to the United Kingdom in the course of an extradition, prisoner repatriation or deportation;”.

(3) In regulation 5A (requirement to ensure passengers possess notification of post arrival testing arrangements)—

(a) in paragraph (2)(a), for “; or” substitute “;”;

(b) after paragraph (2)(a), insert—

“(aa) who is being lawfully compelled to travel to the United Kingdom in the course of an extradition, prisoner repatriation or deportation; or”.

Eluned Morgan

Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers

At 11.54 a.m. on 12 July 2021

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/574 (W. 132)) (the “International Travel Regulations”) and the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Pre-Departure Testing and Operator Liability) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/48 (W. 11)) (the “Operator Liability Regulations”).

The International Travel Regulations impose requirements on persons entering Wales after having been abroad. They include a requirement for persons arriving in Wales from non-exempt countries or territories to isolate for a period determined in accordance with those Regulations.

Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends Schedule 4 to the International Travel Regulations to update the list of specified sporting events. An individual is able to leave isolation to compete or train in, or provide coaching or other support to a person competing in a sporting event specified in Schedule 4.

The Operator Liability Regulations impose requirements on persons operating international passenger services (“operators”) arriving into Wales from outside the common travel area. In accordance with those requirements operators must, for example, ensure that passengers travelling on such services possess notification of a negative test result and have made arrangements to take further tests following their arrival.

Regulation 3 amends the Operator Liability Regulations so that an operator is not required to ensure that a passenger is in possession of a negative pre-departure test result, or has made arrangements to take tests following their arrival, if that passenger is being lawfully compelled to travel in the course of an extradition, prisoner transfer or deportation.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.

(1)

1984 c. 22. Part 2A was inserted by section 129 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14). The function of making regulations under Part 2A is conferred on “the appropriate Minister”. Under section 45T(6) of the 1984 Act the appropriate Minister as respects Wales, is the Welsh Ministers.

(2)

S.I. 2020/574 (W. 132), amended by S.I. 2020/595 (W. 136), S.I. 2020/714 (W. 160), S.I. 2020/726 (W. 163), S.I. 2020/804 (W. 177), S.I. 2020/817 (W. 179), S.I. 2020/840 (W. 185), S.I. 2020/868 (W. 190), S.I. 2020/886 (W. 196), S.I. 2020/917 (W. 205), S.I. 2020/942, S.I. 2020/944 (W. 210), S.I. 2020/962 (W. 216), S.I. 2020/981 (W. 220), S.I. 2020/1015 (W. 226), S.I. 2020/1042 (W. 231), S.I. 2020/1080 (W. 243), S.I. 2020/1098 (W. 249), S.I. 2020/1133 (W. 258), S.I. 2020/1165 (W. 263), S.I. 2020/1191 (W. 269), S.I. 2020/1223 (W. 277), S.I. 2020/1232 (W. 278), S.I. 2020/1237 (W. 279), S.I. 2020/1288 (W. 286), S.I. 2020/1329 (W. 295), S.I. 2020/1362 (W. 301), S.I. 2020/1477 (W. 316), S.I. 2020/1521 (W. 325), S.I. 2020/1602 (W. 332), S.I. 2020/1645 (W. 345), S.I. 2021/20 (W. 7), S.I. 2021/24 (W. 8), S.I. 2021/46 (W. 10), S.I. 2021/48 (W. 11), S.I. 2021/50 (W. 12), S.I. 2021/66 (W. 15), S.I. 2021/72 (W. 18), S.I. 2021/95 (W. 26), S.I. 2021/154 (W. 38), S.I. 2021/305 (W. 78), S.I. 2021/361 (W. 110), S.I. 2021/454 (W. 144), S.I. 2021/500 (W. 149), S.I. 2021/568 (W. 156), S.I. 2021/584 (W. 161), S.I. 2021/646 (W. 166), S.I. 2021/669 (W. 170) and S.I. 2021/765 (W. 187).

(3)

S.I. 2021/48 (W. 11), amended by S.I. 2021/72 (W. 18), S.I. 2021/171 (W. 39), S.I. 2021/305 (W. 78), S.I. 2021/584 (W. 161) and S.I. 2021/646 (W. 166).