Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

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Introduction

PART 1
General

1 Citation and commencement

2 Interpretation

3 Interpretation: red, amber and green list countries and arrivals

PART 2
Obligations on persons arriving in Northern Ireland and others

4 Requirement to provide information

5 Persons exempt from requirement to provide information

6 Requirement to possess notification of negative test result

7 Persons exempt from requirement to possess notification of a negative test result

8 Requirement to book and undertake tests

9 Persons exempt from requirement to book and undertake tests

10 Requirement to self-isolate

11 Limitations to, and exceptions from, requirement to self-isolate

12 Place where a person must self-isolate

13 Persons exempt from requirement to self-isolate

14 Requirement to comply with managed isolation

15 Persons exempt from the requirement to comply with managed isolation

PART 3
Prohibition on the arrival of aircraft and vessels into Northern Ireland

16 Interpretation of Part 3

17 Prohibition on arrival of aircraft into Northern Ireland

18 Prohibition on arrival of vessels into Northern Ireland

PART 4
Enforcement

19 Enforcement of requirement to isolate

20 Additional enforcement powers in respect of managed isolation

21 Additional enforcement powers in respect of red list arrivals

22 Power of entry in respect of managed isolation

23 Offences and penalties

24 Reasonable excuses: contravention of regulation 6

25 Reasonable excuses: contravention of regulation 8

26 Fixed penalty notices

27 Amount of fixed penalty

28 Amount of fixed penalty: offences committed under statutory provisions revoked by these Regulations

29 Effect of fixed penalty notice

30 Registration certificates

31 Registration of penalty

32 Challenge to notice

33 Setting aside of sum enforceable under regulation 31

PART 5
Information sharing

34 Power to use and disclose information

35 Self-incrimination

PART 6
Review and expiry of these Regulations

36 Review of need for restrictions

37 Expiry of these Regulations

PART 7
Final provisions

38 Revocations

39 Transitional provisions

40 Relationship between these Regulations and the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Red list countries

SCHEDULE 2 Green list countries – exempt countries, territories, and parts of countries or territories

SCHEDULE 3 Passenger information

SCHEDULE 4 Persons who are exempt

SCHEDULE 5 Qualifying test

SCHEDULE 6 Requirement to book and undertake tests (mandatory testing after arrival in Northern Ireland)

SCHEDULE 7 Managed isolation

SCHEDULE 8 Prohibition on arrival of aircraft and vessels

SCHEDULE 9 Revocations

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Explanatory note

PART 4Enforcement

Fixed penalty notices

Effect of fixed penalty notice29.

(1)

This regulation applies if a fixed penalty notice is given to any person under regulation 26.

(2)

If the person asks to be tried for the alleged offence, proceedings may be brought against the person.

(3)

If by the end of the period mentioned in regulation 26(3)(a)—

(a)

the penalty has not been paid, and

(b)

the person has not made a request to be tried,

a sum equal to one and a half times the amount of the penalty (“the enhanced sum”) may be registered under regulation 31 for enforcement against that person as a fine.

(4)

But the enhanced sum must not exceed £10,000.