The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel and Operator Liability) (Scotland) Regulations 2021

[F1 Eligible COP participant who is a red list arrival S

5.— (1) This paragraph applies to a person (“P”) where—

(a) P is not a person to whom paragraph 2 applies (world leader summit invitees and COP 26 representatives),

(b) P is a person [F2 who has been registered to attend the COP with the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and has confirmation of their registration from the secretariat],

(c) P is a red list arrival,

(d) P—

(i) satisfies the requirements in regulations 3(2)(a), (b), (c) and (f), (3)(a) and (c), (4)(a) and (c), (5), (6)(a) and (c) or (7),

(ii) has completed a course of doses of an authorised vaccine, and P received the final dose before the start of the period beginning with the 9th day before the date of P’s arrival in the United Kingdom,

(iii) has participated, or is participating, in a clinical trial regulated by the regulator in the country where the trial is carried out of a vaccine for vaccination against coronavirus, or

(iv) is under the age of 18 when P enters the United Kingdom for the purposes of attending or facilitating the COP, and

(e) P has declared on the Passenger Locator Form that P meets the applicable requirement in paragraph (d).

(2) Where this paragraph applies—

(a) the reference to “the 14th day” in regulation 3(2)(a) and in regulation 3(6)(a) is to be read as if it were a reference to “the 9th day”,

(b) F3 ... P is required to comply with regulations 4 to 6 (passenger information),

(c) notwithstanding regulation 10(1), P is required to comply with regulations 7 to 10 (testing prior to arrival in Scotland),

(d) P is required to comply with regulations 11, 14, 15, and 16 (testing following arrival in Scotland) as if P is not an eligible vaccinated arrival and with the modifications in sub-paragraph (3),

(e) P is required to comply with regulations 19 to 25 (managed isolation) as if, in regulation 21(1)(a), the reference to “the 10th day” were a reference to “the 5th day”,

(f) P is not required to comply with regulations 26 and 27 (self-isolation).

(3) The modifications are as follows—

(a) “testing package” means a day 2 test arranged for P by virtue of being a person described in paragraph 1(3) of schedule 4,

(b) regulation 21(1)(a) applies as if the reference to “the 10th day” were a reference to “the 5th day”,

(c) where P’s day 2 test generates a negative result, P must remain in the designated accommodation until the end of the 5th day after the day on which P arrived in Scotland,

(d) where P’s day 2 test generates an inconclusive result, P must remain in the designated accommodation—

(i) until the end of the 10th day after the day P undertook the test,

(ii) where P undertakes a test to which regulation 16(8) applies and the test generates a negative result, until the end of the 5th day after the day on which P arrived in Scotland or, if later, the day on which P receives the negative result.

(iii) where P undertakes a test to which regulation 16(8) applies and the test generates a positive result, until the end of the 10th day after the day P undertook the test (in which case P is not required to undertake a day 8 test),

(e) regulation 16 does not apply in relation to the result generated from P’s day 8 test.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 5A inserted (9.10.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel and Operator Liability) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/357), regs. 1(2), 15(2) (with reg. 16(1))

F2 Words in sch. 5A para. 5(1)(b) substituted (15.10.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel and Operator Liability) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 5) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/359), regs. 1(2), 11(b)(iii) (with reg. 14)

F3 Words in sch. 5A para. 5(2)(b) omitted (15.10.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel and Operator Liability) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 5) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/359), regs. 1(2), 11(c)(iii) (with reg. 14)