2021 No. 212

Public Health

The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 11) Regulations 2021
Approved by the Scottish Parliament
Made
at 2.40 p.m. on 24th May 2021
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
at 4.30 p.m. on 24th May 2021
Coming into force
at 4.00 a.m. on 25th May 2021
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 94(1)(b)(i) and 122(2)(a) and (b) of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 , and all other powers enabling them to do so.
In accordance with section 122(6) of that Act, the Scottish Ministers consider that these Regulations need to be made urgently, without a draft having been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the Scottish Parliament.

Citation and commencement
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 11) Regulations 2021 and come into force at 4.00 a.m. on 25 May 2021.

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Scotland) Regulations 2020
2
The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 are amended in accordance with regulation 3.
3
In regulation 7A(3)—
a
in sub-paragraph (b), omit “4B(1),” and “4D,”,
b
after that sub-paragraph insert—
ba
a person described in paragraph 4B(1) of schedule 2, unless the person has travelled to the United Kingdom to work, or has been repatriated to the United Kingdom after working, on board a cruise ship,
bb
a person described in paragraph 4D of schedule 2, unless the person has travelled to the United Kingdom to work on board a cruise ship or after completing work on board a cruise ship,
.

Saving
4
The amendments made by these Regulations do not apply in relation to any person who arrived in Scotland during the period beginning at 12.01 a.m. on 8 June 2020 and ending immediately prior to the coming into force of these Regulations, and the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 continue to apply to such persons as if the amendments made by these Regulations had not been made.
MICHAEL MATHESON
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
At 2.40 p.m. on 24th May 2021

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (“the International Travel Regulations”).
Regulation 3 amends regulation 7A of the International Travel Regulations to limit the exemption of seafarers and inspectors and surveyors of ships from the requirement to enter Scotland only at a designated port and the requirement to take out and comply with a managed self-isolation package (hotel accommodation, transport to it and testing). Seafarers and inspectors and surveyors of ships will no longer benefit from the exemption where they have entered the UK in order to work on a cruise ship, or after having worked on a cruise ship.
Regulation 4 makes saving provision such that a person who arrives in Scotland on or after 12:01 am on 8 June 2020, but before the coming into effect of an amendment made by these Regulations, must comply with the International Travel Regulations as they were at the time at which the person arrived in Scotland.
2008 asp 5.
S.S.I. 2020/169, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2021/74, S.S.I. 2021/107, S.S.I. 2021/158, S.S.I. 2021/191.