The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Public Health Information) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
| Year | 2020 |
2020 No. 691
Public Health, England
Transport, England
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Public Health Information) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Made 6th July 2020
Laid before Parliament 6th July 2020
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45B, 45F(2) and 45P(2) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 19841.
Citation and commencement provision
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Public Health Information) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020.
(2) These Regulations, apart from regulations 3(a), 5(2) to (4), 7 and 9(1), come into force on 7th July 2020.
(3) Regulations 3(a), 5(2) to (4), 7 and 9(1) come into force on 10th July 2020.
Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020 and transitional and saving provision
2.—(1) The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 20202(“the principal Regulations”) are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 9.
(2) In relation to any person who arrived in England on or after 8th June 2020 and before the coming into force of any amendment made by regulations 3 to 5 and 7 to 9, the principal Regulations apply as if that amendment had not been made.
(3) During the period beginning with 7th July 2020 and ending with 9th July 2020 the principal Regulations are to be read as if—
(a)
(a) any reference to a non-exempt country or territory in those Regulations were a reference to a country or territory outside the common travel area; and
(b)
(b) in paragraph 3(1)(aa) of Schedule 2 to those Regulations, the words “or from an exempt country or territory” were omitted.
Amendments to regulation 2
3. In regulation 2—
(a) after the definition of “coronavirus disease” insert—
““exempt country or territory” means a country or territory specified in Schedule A1 and “non-exempt country or territory” means any other country or territory outside the common travel area;”;
(b) at the end insert—
“3. For the purposes of these Regulations, a person (“P”) is not treated as departing from or transiting through a country or territory if, at all times whilst in that country or territory—
(a) P remains on a conveyance and no other passenger is permitted to be taken on board, or
(b) P is kept separated from passengers who did not arrive on the same conveyance as P, and no such passengers are permitted to be taken on board the conveyance on which P leaves that country or territory.”.
Amendment to regulation 3
4. For regulation 3(10) substitute—
“10. The following are not required to comply with this regulation—
(a) a person described in regulation 4(12),
(b) a person described in any of paragraphs 1 to 4 of Schedule 2,
(c) a person described in any of paragraphs 4A to 4F of Schedule 2 who meets the condition in paragraph 4G of that Schedule,
(d) a person described in paragraph 12 of Schedule 2.”.
Amendments to regulation 4
5.—(1) Regulation 4 is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1)—
(a)
(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for “outside the common travel area” substitute “a non-exempt country or territory”;
(b)
(b) in sub-paragraph (b)—
(i) after “within the common travel area” insert “or from an exempt country or territory”,
(ii) for “been outside the common travel area” substitute “departed from or transited through a non-exempt country or territory”.
(3) In paragraph (3)(a)—
(a)
(a) in paragraph (i), for “described in paragraph (1)(a)” substitute “who has arrived from outside the common travel area”;
(b)
(b) in paragraph (ii), for “described in paragraph (1)(b)” substitute “who has arrived from within the common travel area”.
(4) In paragraph (7)(a), for “arrive in the common travel area” substitute “last departed from or transited through a non-exempt country or territory”.
(5) In paragraph (9)—
(a)
(a) in sub-paragraph (b), for the words from “any of the services” to the end substitute “services from dentists, opticians, audiologists, chiropodists, chiropractors, osteopaths and other medical or health practitioners, including services relating to mental health”;
(b)
(b) after sub-paragraph (b) insert—
“(ba)
“(ba) to access veterinary services where this is required urgently or on the advice of a veterinary surgeon,”.
(6) In paragraph (13), after sub-paragraph (c) insert—
“(ca)
“(ca) in paragraph 39 of Schedule 2—
where P is an international elite sportsperson or an international ancillary sportsperson, P satisfies the requirements of paragraph (2) if P complies with the conditions specified in paragraph 39(4)(a) or (b), as the case may be, of Schedule 2,
in any other case, P is not required to comply with this regulation,
(cb)
(cb) in paragraph 40 of Schedule 2, paragraph (2) does not—
prevent P from travelling from the place where P is self-isolating to the place where the production is taking place, or
require P to remain in isolation from any other person who is working on the same production,”.
Substitution of regulation 11
6. For regulation 11 substitute—
“Review of need for requirements
11. The Secretary of State must review the need for the requirements imposed by these Regulations by 27th July 2020 and at least once every 28 days thereafter.”.
Amendments to Schedule 1
7.—(1) Schedule 1 is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 2(a) and (b) at the end insert “(where required to comply with regulation 4)”.
(3) In paragraph 2(h) and (j)(ii) after “country” insert “or territory”.
(4) After paragraph 2(h) insert—
“(ha)
“(ha) any other country or territory they have departed from or transited through in the period beginning with the 14th day before the date of their arrival in England, and in any such case, the dates of departing from or transiting through any such country or territory,”.
Amendments to Schedule 2
8.—(1) Schedule 2 is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 3(1)—
(a)
(a) omit the “or” after paragraph (a),
(b)
(b) after paragraph (a) insert—
“(aa)
“(aa) has travelled from a point of origin within the common travel area or from an exempt country or territory on a vessel or aircraft operated by, or in support of, Her Majesty’s armed forces or by, or in support of, a visiting force and that vessel or aircraft has not taken on any persons, docked in any port or landed in any non-exempt country or territory, or”,
(c)
(c) in paragraph (b), after “Her Majesty’s Naval Service” insert “or by, or in support of, a visiting force”.
(3) In Part 2, before paragraph 5 insert—
“4A. (1) A road passenger transport worker.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—
(a)
(a) “road passenger transport worker” means—
the driver of a public service vehicle, or
a person who is employed by the holder of a Community licence issued under Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009of the European Parliament and of the Council3, and who is acting in the course of their employment,
(b)
(b) “driver” includes a person who is travelling in a vehicle as a relief driver,
(c)
(c) “public service vehicle” has the meaning given in section 1 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 19814.
4B. (1) Seamen and masters, as defined in section 313(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 19955, where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work or have been repatriated to the United Kingdom in accordance with the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 or the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007.
(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) and paragraph 4C—
(a)
(a) “the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006” means the Convention adopted on 23rd February 2006 by the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation6,
(b)
(b) “the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007” means the Convention adopted at Geneva on 14th June 2007 by the International Labour Organisation7.
4C. A pilot, as defined in paragraph 22(1) of Schedule 3A to the Merchant Shipping Act 19958, where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work or have been repatriated to the United Kingdom in accordance with the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 or the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007.
4D. An inspector, or a surveyor of ships, appointed under section 256 of the Merchant Shipping Act 19959, where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work.
4E. Crew, as defined in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Air Navigation Order 201610, where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work.
4F. (1) Any of the following who have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work—
(a)
(a) drivers and crew on shuttle services and on services for the carriage of passengers or goods by way of the tunnel system,
(b)
(b) other workers carrying out essential roles for the safe or efficient operation of the tunnel system, shuttle services or services for the carriage of passengers or goods by way of the tunnel system, or relating to the security of the tunnel system or any such services.
(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—
(a)
(a) “shuttle service” has the meaning given in section 1(9) of the Channel Tunnel Act 198711,
(b)
(b) “tunnel system” has the meaning given in section 1(7) of that Act.
4G. (1) The condition mentioned in regulation 3(10)(c) is that the person has on their journey to England travelled only—
(a)
(a) on a conveyance which does not carry passengers,
(b)
(b) in an area of a conveyance which is not accessible to passengers, or
(c)
(c) in an area of a conveyance which is...
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