The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Information for Passengers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
2021 No. 252
Public Health, England
Transport, England
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Information for Passengers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Made 5th March 2021
Laid before Parliament 8th March 2021
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, commencement, extent and application
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Information for Passengers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations come into force at 4.00 a.m. on 8th March 2021.
(3) Regulations 2 to 5 come into force at 4.00 a.m. on 9th March 2021.
(4) These Regulations extend to England and Wales and apply in relation to England only.
Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020
2. The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 20202are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 5.
Amendment of Schedule 2 (persons not required to comply with regulation 3 or 4)
3. In Schedule 2, for paragraph 4E substitute—
“4E.—(1) A member of aircraft crew where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work or are otherwise required to travel to the United Kingdom for work purposes.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—
(a)
(a) “member of aircraft crew” means a person who—
(i) acts as a pilot, flight navigator, flight engineer or flight radiotelephony operator of the aircraft,
(ii) is carried on the flight deck and is appointed by the operator of the aircraft to give or to supervise the training, experience, practice and periodical tests required for the flight crew under article 114(2) of the Air Navigation Order 20163or any provision of EU-OPS, or
(iii) is carried on the flight for the purpose of performing duties to be assigned by the operator or the pilot in command of the aircraft in the interests of the safety of passengers or of the aircraft;
(b)
(b) travel for work purposes includes, in particular—
(i) where the member of aircraft crew resides outside the United Kingdom, travelling to the United Kingdom to work on an aircraft departing from the United Kingdom,
(ii) travelling to attend work-related training in the United Kingdom,
(iii) returning to the United Kingdom following work-related training outside the United Kingdom;
(c)
(c) “EU-OPS” has the meaning given in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Air Navigation Order 2016.”.
Amendment of Schedule 2B (testing before arrival in England)
4. In Schedule 2B, omit paragraph 3(1)(e).
Amendment of Schedule 3 (specified competitions)
5. In Schedule 3—
(a) omit the following entries—
(i) “World Snooker Tour – Shoot Out”;
(ii) “British Judo – British Closed Senior Invitational Competition”;
(iii) “Professional Darts Corporation - Ladbrokes Masters”;
(iv) “World Snooker Tour - German Masters”;
(v) “World Snooker Tour - Players Championship”;
(vi) “World Snooker Tour - Welsh Open”;
(vii) “Betfair Ascot Chase Day horse-racing”;
(viii) “Bolton Indoor ITF Wheelchair Tennis events”;
(ix) “FIG Gymnastics World Cup”;
(x) “Grand National Trial Day horse-racing”;
(xi) “Matchroom - Superstars of Gymnastics”;
(xii) “Matchroom - World Ping Pong Masters”;
(xiii) “Professional Darts Corporation - Q School”;
(b) at the end insert—
“British Athletics - 20km Race Walk Olympic Trial
British Wrestling - Home Nations Invitational Tournament
LTA Loughborough Indoor Wheelchair Tennis Tournament
FIA World Endurance Championship Prologue and Round 1 Silverstone
British Para Athletics Sprint Meet
Motorsport UK - HSCC Formula 2 Championship Masters Historic Race Weekend
Motorsport UK - British Superkart Championship and Support Series
Motorsport UK - British Truck Racing Championship
British Equestrian - International Dressage Events
British Para Swimming International Meet
Cage Warriors 121
Badminton Horse Trials
European Tour - Betfred British Masters
Motorsport UK - GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup and Support Series
Motorsport UK - Donington Historic Festival
Motorsport UK - British Touring Car Championship and Support Series
Motorsport UK - Ferrari Challenge UK and Support
Motorsport UK - British GT Championship and Support Series / Porsche Sprint Challenge GB and Support Series
Motorsport UK - Master Historic F1 / Sports Cars and Support Series
Motorsport UK - FIA Main Event 2021 and Support Series
England Hockey Pro League
FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship - Qualifying Round
Royal Windsor Horse Show
Bolesworth International Horse Show
British Speedway Premiership, Championship and National Development Leagues
The 2020 UEFA European Football Championship”.
Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Passengers Travelling to England) Regulations 2020
6. The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Passengers Travelling to England) Regulations 20204are amended in accordance with regulations 7 to 13.
Amendment of title and regulation 1
7. In both the title to the Regulations and regulation 1(1), for “(Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Passengers Travelling to England)” substitute “(Coronavirus, Public Health Information for International Passengers) (England)”.
Amendment of regulation 2 (interpretation)
8.—(1) Regulation 2 is amended as follows.
(2) In the definition of “authorised person”, in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c), after “arriving” insert “or departing”.
(3) For the definition of “operator” substitute—
““operator” means operator of a relevant service, except—
(a) in regulations 3(7), 3(9), 3(9A), 6 and 7, where it means operator of a relevant service or relevant outbound service,
(b) in the definition of “outbound operator”;”.
(4) After the definition of “operator”...
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