Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel, Public Health Information and Pre-Departure Testing) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021

Amendment of the Pre-Departure Testing Regulations4.

(1)

Part 2 (operator liability in respect of arrivals) of the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Pre-Departure Testing and Operator Liability) (Scotland) Regulations 20216 is amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 5—

(a)

after the definition of “child”, insert—

““coronavirus notification” means notification of the result of a test for the detection of coronavirus which includes, in English, French or Spanish, the following information—

(a)

the name of the person from whom the test sample was taken,

(b)

that person’s date of birth or age,

(c)

the negative result of that test,

(d)

the date the test sample was collected or received by the test provider,

(e)

the name of the test provider and information sufficient to contact that provider,

(f)

the name of the device that was used for the test,”,

(b)

omit the definition of “qualifying test”,

(c)

in paragraph (b) of the definition of “relevant passenger”, for “required notification” substitute “valid notification of a negative result”,

(d)

omit the definition of “required notification”.

(3)

In regulation 7(1), for “required notification” substitute “coronavirus notification”.

(4)

For regulation 7(2) substitute—

“(2)

A child is to be treated as possessing a coronavirus notification if such a notification is possessed by a person who is travelling with, and has responsibility for, that child.”.

(5)

In regulation 8(4), for “required notification” in both places it occurs, substitute “coronavirus notification”.

(6)

In regulation 9(2), for “required notification” substitute “coronavirus notification”.