Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings) (England) Regulations 2021
PART 2Requirement to wear a face covering: relevant places and public transport
Requirement to wear a face covering when on public transport4.
(1)
No person may, without reasonable excuse, use a public transport service without wearing a face covering.
(2)
For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person is using a public transport service at any time when—
(a)
they are boarding a public transport vehicle, or
(b)
they are (whether or not for the purposes of travel) on board a public transport vehicle.
(3)
The requirement in paragraph (1) does not apply—
(a)
to a child who is under the age of 11;
(b)
to an employee of the operator of the relevant public transport service acting in the course of their employment;
(c)
to a person providing services under arrangements made with the operator of the relevant public transport service;
(d)
to a constable or police community support officer acting in the course of their duty;
(e)
to an emergency responder (other than a constable) acting in their capacity as an emergency responder;
(f)
to a relevant official acting in the course of their employment or their duties;
(g)
where a person is in any part of a public transport vehicle which is not indoors;
(h)
where a person is allocated a cabin, berth or other similar accommodation, at any time when they are in that accommodation;
(i)
where a person is in an area within a public transport vehicle which is being used wholly or mainly by people—
(i)
eating or drinking, or
(ii)
dancing;
(j)
where—
(i)
a person is permitted, or ordinarily required, to board and to remain in a vehicle when using the public transport service,
(ii)
the vehicle is not itself a public transport vehicle, and
(iii)
the person remains in that vehicle.
(4)
In this regulation, “relevant official” means—
(a)
an inspector, or a surveyor of ships, appointed under section 256 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (“the 1995 Act”);
(b)
a pilot (within the meaning given in paragraph 22(1) of Schedule 3A to the 1995 Act);
(c)
a civil aviation inspector, as defined in Annex 9 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation signed at Chicago on 7th December 1944;
(d)
a border force officer (within the meaning given in paragraph 7 of Schedule 20 to the Coronavirus Act 2020).