These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (“the International Travel Regulations”).

Regulation 3 makes some minor drafting changes to the International Travel Regulations.

Regulation 4 makes amendments to Part 3 of the International Travel Regulations. In particular it amends regulations 6A and 6B so that persons who arrive in Scotland from elsewhere within the Common Travel Area, having in the previous 10 days departed from or transited through an acute risk country or territory, are required to—

• enter Scotland only at one of the ports designated in regulation 6A(2),

• possess a managed self-isolation package in accordance with regulation 6A(4), and

• stay in managed accommodation in accordance with regulation 6B.

Regulation 4(d) provides that persons whose arrival in the United Kingdom has been arranged under a UK refugee resettlement scheme are not required to stay in managed accommodation but are required to stay in a specified premises.

Regulation 8(b) makes changes to the sectoral exemption for oil and gas workers, so that workers returning from an installation in the North Sea who have transited via a non-acute risk country or territory (but have not entered that country or territory) are not required to stay in managed accommodation but are required to stay in specified premises (such as their own home).

Regulation 9 makes amendments to the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Passengers Travelling to Scotland) Regulations 2020 which are consequential upon the changes made to the International Travel Regulations by regulation 4.