Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2021

Amendment of Schedule 1316.

(1)

Schedule 13 (prohibition on the arrival of aircraft and vessels into England) is amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph 4, omit sub-paragraph (da) (Dominican Republic).

(3)

In paragraph 7—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (1)(b), after “territories” insert “at any time when category 3 arrivals are being processed in that terminal or part of a terminal”;

(b)

after sub-paragraph (1), insert—

“(1A)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b)—

(a)

“category 3 arrival” means a passenger who arrives in England on a direct flight from a category 3 country or territory;

(b)

a category 3 arrival is being processed in a terminal, or part of a terminal, during the period—

(i)

beginning when the passenger (“P”) arrives in that terminal, or that part of a terminal, and

(ii)

ending when P exits the place within that terminal, or part of a terminal, where P is required, for the purposes of section 78 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 197914, to declare any thing contained in P’s baggage or carried with P which P obtained outside the United Kingdom.”.