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

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Introduction

PART 1
General

1 Citation and commencement

2 Interpretation: general

3 Interpretation: eligible vaccinated arrivals

PART 2
Passenger Information

4 Requirement to provide passenger information

5 Requirement to update passenger information

6 Part 2: persons not required to comply

PART 3
Testing prior to arrival in Scotland

7 Part 3: interpretation

8 Requirement to possess notification of negative test result

9 Qualifying test and valid notification

10 Part 3: persons not required to comply

PART 4
Testing following arrival in Scotland

11 Part 4: application and interpretation

12 Requirement to possess testing package

13 Requirement to provide information

14 Requirement to undertake tests

15 Requirement to self-isolate on failure to undertake a test

16 Consequences of test results

17 Charge for testing package

18 Part 4: persons not required to comply

PART 5
Managed isolation

19 Part 5: application

20 Requirement to enter Scotland at a designated port and possess a managed isolation package

21 Requirement to stay in managed accommodation

22 Modification of regulations 20 and 21: relevant persons

23 Charge for managed isolation package

24 Appeals

25 Part 5: persons not required to comply

PART 6
Self-isolation

26 Requirement to stay in specified premises

27 Part 6: persons not required to comply

PART 7
Parts 2 to 6: enforcement

28 Part 2 (information): offences and penalties

29 Part 3 (testing before arrival in Scotland): offences and penalties

30 Part 4 (testing following arrival in Scotland): offences and penalties

31 Part 5 (managed isolation): offences and penalties

32 Part 6 (self-isolation): offences and penalties

33 Powers of direction and removal

34 Further offences and penalties

35 Fixed penalty notices

36 Fixed penalty notices: penalty amounts

PART 8
Duties on operators

37 Part 8: Interpretation

38 Provision of information before booking

39 Provision of information between 24 and 48 hours before scheduled departure

40 Provision of information before check-in

41 Provision of information during journey

42 Requirement to ensure passengers have completed a Passenger Locator Form

43 Requirement to ensure passengers possess notification of a negative test result

44 Requirement to ensure that certain passengers arrive only at certain ports

45 Part 8: offences and penalties

46 Extra-territorial jurisdiction

PART 9
Information sharing

47 Power to use and disclose information

48 Meaning of “relevant information”

PART 10
Review, expiry, revocations, transitionals and savings

49 Review of need for restrictions

50 Expiry

51 Revocations

52 Transitional and savings provisions

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Red list countries

SCHEDULE 2 Green list countries

SCHEDULE 3 Passenger Information

SCHEDULE 4 Exemptions

SCHEDULE 5 COP 26 Representatives

SCHEDULE 6 Specified competitions

SCHEDULE 7 Operators: required information

SCHEDULE 8 Passenger notices

SCHEDULE 9 Revocations

SCHEDULE 10 Transitional provisions

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Explanatory note

PART 6Self-isolation

Requirement to stay in specified premises26.

(1)

Subject to regulation 27 (persons not required to comply), this regulation applies to a person (“P”) who is—

(a)

an amber list arrival,

(b)

a red list arrival described in—

(i)

regulation 25(1)(e) (elite sportsperson) (subject to regulation 27(1)(h)),

(ii)

regulation 25(1)(f), (refugee),

(iii)

regulation 25(1)(g), (unaccompanied child),

(iv)

regulation 25(1)(h) (boarding school pupil),

(v)

subject to regulation 27(1)(i), the following paragraphs of schedule 4—

(aa)

paragraph 4 (border security),

(bb)

paragraph 11 (in-flight security officer), or

(cc)

paragraph 19 (extradition), or

(c)

not otherwise required to comply with this regulation (by virtue of sub-paragraphs (a) or (b) as read with regulation 27), and either—

(i)

contravenes a requirement in regulation 8(2) (notification of negative test result), or

(ii)

is a child in respect of whom the person responsible contravenes a requirement in regulation 8(3).

(2)

P must, on arrival in Scotland, travel without undue delay to specified premises in Scotland and, except to the extent that a defence would be available under regulation 32(2), must not leave those premises until whichever is the later of the end of the—

(a)

10th day after the day on which they last departed from or transited through an amber list country or, as the case may be, a red list country, or

(b)

relevant period specified in regulation 15(3) or, as the case may be, 16(1)(b), (3), (5) or (6).

(3)

Where regulation 16(3) results in a shorter period than that specified in paragraph (2)(a), that shorter period applies.

(4)

For the purposes of this regulation, the “specified premises” are—

(a)

unless paragraph (b), (c) or (d) applies—

(i)

an address specified in P’s Passenger Locator Form in accordance with paragraph 2(a) of schedule 3, as required by regulation 4, where P, or if P is a child any person who has responsibility for P, has completed a Passenger Locator Form,

(ii)

an address specified as the place P intends to stay for the duration of the period referred to in paragraph (2) where P, or if P is a child any person who has responsibility for P, has completed a form equivalent to a Passenger Locator Form pursuant to an enactment in England, Wales or Northern Ireland,

(iii)

the premises at which P intends to stay for such part of the period specified in paragraph (2) as will apply while in Scotland where P has not completed a Passenger Locator Form or equivalent form as described in head (ii),

(iv)

the premises at which P intends to stay for such part of the period specified in paragraph (2) as will apply while in Scotland where P is a person described in paragraph 1 of schedule 4 (other than one described in regulation 27(1)(e)), or

(v)

where it is not possible for P to stay at a place in accordance with heads (i) to (iv), in accommodation facilitated by the Secretary of State for P for the purposes of paragraph (2),

(b)

where P is an asylum seeker of at least 18 years or age, in accommodation provided or arranged under section 4, 95 or 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 199926,

(c)

where P is a person described in paragraph 9(1) of schedule 10 of the Immigration Act 201627 (powers of Secretary of State to enable person to meet bail conditions), in accommodation provided or arranged under that paragraph, or

(d)

where P is an unaccompanied child for whom it is not possible to stay at a place in accordance with sub-paragraph (a)(i) to (iii), in accommodation provided or arranged by a local authority28.

(5)

For the purposes of this regulation, where the specified premises are residential premises those premises include any garden, yard, passage, stair, garage, outhouse or other appurtenance of such premises.

(6)

Where P is a person described in paragraph 41 of schedule 4 (seasonal agricultural worker), paragraph (4)(a) applies with the modification that the address at which P intends to stay for the purposes of this regulation must be—

(a)

the named farm (within the meaning of paragraph 41 of schedule 4), or

(b)

where it is not possible to stay at the named farm, the accommodation which the employer or farming enterprise concerned has provided or arranged for P for the purposes of this regulation.

(7)

Where P is a red list arrival mentioned in regulation 25(1)(h) (boarding school pupil), paragraph (4)(a) applies with the modification that the address at which P intends to stay for the purposes of this regulation must be the boarding school at which education and accommodation is due to be provided for P.

(8)

Where P is a child, any person who has responsibility for P must ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, that P complies with this regulation.

(9)

Where P is a red list arrival mentioned in regulation 25(1)(g) (unaccompanied child) who travels to any specified premises referred to in paragraph (4)(a)(i) to (iii) in compliance with paragraph (2), any person who is sharing those premises with P must remain in the premises until the expiry of the period referred to in paragraph (2)(a), or the later of the periods referred to in paragraph (2)(b), depending on which of those periods applies to P.

(10)

Nothing in this regulation affects the operation of any requirement or restriction applying to P by virtue of schedule 21 of the Coronavirus Act 202029 (powers relating to potentially infectious persons) or by virtue of an order made under Part 4 of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 200830.
26

1999 c. 33. Section 4 was amended by section 49 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41), by section 10(1) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 (c. 19), by section 43(7) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (c. 13), and by paragraph 1 of schedule 11 of the Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19). Section 95 was amended by section 50(1) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 and by paragraph 29 of schedule 10 of the Immigration Act 2016.

28

“local authority” is defined in schedule 1 (definitions) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).