Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) (Amendment No. 5) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

“(3)

In relation to an offence in paragraph (1)(a), it is a defence—

(a)

for an operator to show that they recorded a unique passenger reference number for the defaulting passenger, or

(b)

for an operator alleged to have failed to ensure that a passenger possesses evidence of eligibility for an exemption claimed in a Passenger Locator Form, to show that the passenger presented a document purporting to be appropriate evidence which the operator, or a person acting on behalf of the operator, could not reasonably have been expected to know was not appropriate evidence,

before that passenger boarded the relevant service.”.