PART 2E+WRequirement to possess notification of a negative result from a pre-departure test

Application of Part to persons arriving from mainland ChinaE+W

2.—(1) This Part applies to a person (“P”) who arrives in England on a flight from mainland China.

(2) This Part does not apply to a person described in the Schedule.

(3) In paragraph (1), “a flight from mainland China” means—

(a)in the case of a commercial flight—

(i)a flight that, having departed from mainland China, does not land in any country or territory (other than England), or

(ii)a flight to which P transits [F1in a country or territory other than mainland China (“a third country or territory”) in the course of P’s journey from mainland China to England];

(b)in any other case, a flight on an aircraft that departs from mainland China whether or not the aircraft lands, for any purpose, in any other country or territory in the course of its journey to England.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3)(a)(ii), P transits to a flight [F2in the course of P’s journey from mainland China to England] if, having arrived in the third country or territory—

[F3(a)P continues their journey to England on a flight—

(i)with the same flight operator as the other flights in P’s journey, or

(ii)with a different flight operator under an arrangement by which the entire journey to England is treated as a single journey, and

(b)P remains, at all times whilst waiting to depart from a third country or territory, within the airport at which they arrived and departs on a flight from that airport without first passing through immigration control.]

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 2 in force at 5.1.2023 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)