The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (2021 Consolidation) (Amendment No. 12) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 No. 340


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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2021 No. 340

Public Health

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (2021 Consolidation) (Amendment No. 12) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

Made

14th December 2021

Coming into operation

at 4.00 a.m. on 15th December 2021

The Department of Health( 1) makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25B and 25F of the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967( 2).

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (2021 Consolidation) (Amendment No. 12) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021.

(2) These Regulations come into operation at 4.00 a.m. on 15th December 2021.

(3) An amendment made by these Regulations does not apply in relation to a person arriving in Northern Ireland before the coming into operation of the provision containing the amendment.

(4) In these Regulations “ the principal Regulations” means the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021( 3).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.  The principal Regulations are amended as mentioned in regulations 3 and 4.

Amendment of Schedule 1 (Red list countries)

3.  In Schedule 1, for the existing text substitute “No countries are currently listed for the purposes of this Schedule”.

Amendment of Schedule 8 (Prohibition on arrival of aircraft and vessels)

4.  In Schedule 8, in paragraph 1, for the existing text substitute “No countries or territories are specified in this paragraph”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 14th December 2021

(L.S.)

Dr Lourda Geoghegan

A senior officer of the Department of Health

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (“ the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 3 omits Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe from Schedule 1 (Red list countries) so that there are no countries listed for the purposes of that Schedule.

Regulation 4 omits Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe from Schedule 8 (Prohibition on arrival of aircraft and vessels) so that relevant aircraft departing from these countries or territories are no longer prohibited from landing in Northern Ireland.

No impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations.

( 1)

2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s. 1(5).

( 3)

S.R. 2021 No. 99as amended by S.R. 2021 Nos. 108, 121, 132, 154, 189, 213, 214, 218, 225, 230, 241, 262, 278, 282, 284, 293, 301, 312, 313, 316, 322and 323.


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