Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel and Operator Liability) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 12) Regulations 2021

Amendment of regulation 9 – qualifying test and valid notification4.

In regulation 9—

(a)

in paragraph (1)(c) (qualifying test and valid notification)—

(i)

for “3” substitute “2”,

(ii)

in head (i) for “service, the service’s scheduled time of departure, or” substitute—

“service—

(aa)

which does not involve the person transiting through a country or territory outside the common travel area, the service’s scheduled time of departure,

(bb)

which involves the person transiting through a country or territory outside the common travel area, the scheduled time of departure of the first part of the service, or”,

(b)

after paragraph (1) insert—

“(1A)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(c), a person transits through a country or territory if they arrive in that country or territory for the sole purpose of continuing a journey to Scotland—

(a)

on a conveyance other than the conveyance on which they arrived, or

(b)

on the same conveyance, having temporarily disembarked from it.”.