Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) (Amendment No. 11) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

Amendment of Schedule 57.

In Schedule 5 (Qualifying test) —

(a)

in paragraph 1(c)—

(i)

for “three” substitute “two”;

(ii)

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

“service that—

(aa)

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

(bb)

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”;

(b)

after paragraph 1 insert—

“1A.

For the purposes of paragraph 1, 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 Northern Ireland—

(a)

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

(b)

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