Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel from China) (England) Regulations 2023

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Introduction

PART 1
Introductory

1 Citation, commencement, extent, application and interpretation

PART 2
Requirement to possess notification of a negative result from a pre-departure test

2 Application of Part to persons arriving from mainland China

3 Requirement to possess notification of a negative result from a pre-departure test

4 Pre-departure test criteria

5 Form of notification of negative result

PART 3
Requirement for operators to implement and maintain processes and systems

6 Requirement to implement and maintain processes and systems

7 Requirement to retain and provide records and information

PART 4
Enforcement and expiry

8 Offences and penalties

9 Fixed penalty notices

10 Prosecutions

11 Expiry

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE Descriptions of persons to whom Part 2 does not apply

Signature

Explanatory note

PART 2Requirement to possess notification of a negative result from a pre-departure test

Application of Part to persons arriving from mainland China2.

(1)

This Part applies to a person (“P”) who arrives in England on a flight from mainland China.

(2)

This Part does not apply to a person described in the Schedule.

(3)

In paragraph (1), “a flight from mainland China” means—

(a)

in the case of a commercial flight—

(i)

a flight that, having departed from mainland China, does not land in any country or territory (other than England), or

(ii)

a flight to which P transits having arrived in a country or territory (“the third country or territory”) on a flight which departed from mainland China;

(b)

in any other case, a flight on an aircraft that departs from mainland China whether or not the aircraft lands, for any purpose, in any other country or territory in the course of its journey to England.

(4)

For the purposes of paragraph (3)(a)(ii), P transits to a flight if, having arrived in the third country or territory—

(a)

P continues their journey to England on that flight,

(b)

the flight is—

(i)

with the same flight operator, or

(ii)

with a different flight operator under an arrangement by which the entire journey to England is treated as a single journey, and

(c)

P remains, at all times whilst waiting to depart from the third country or territory, within the airport at which they arrived and departs on the flight from that airport without first passing through immigration control.