Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 8) Regulations 2021
Amendments to Part 39.
In regulation 6 (requirement for travellers to stay in specified premises)—
(a)
in paragraph (1)—
(i)
in sub-paragraph (c), at the end omit “or”,
(ii)
“(e)
is a child who arrives in Scotland from—
(i)
outside the common travel area, or
(ii)
elsewhere within the common travel area where P has within the preceding 10 days departed from or transited through a non-exempt country or territory, and—
(aa)
is accompanied by an adult on arrival in Scotland, but that adult ceases to accompany P before P travels to specified premises in accordance with paragraph (2), or
(ab)
is unaccompanied by an adult,
(f)
arrives in Scotland from—
(i)
outside the common travel area, or
(ii)
elsewhere within the common travel area where P has within the preceding 10 days departed from or transited through a non-exempt country or territory,
and has travelled to the United Kingdom for the purpose of receiving education at a boarding school in Scotland at which education and accommodation is due to be provided for P.”,
(b)
in paragraph (3)—
(i)
“, or if P is a child any person who has responsibility for P,”,
(ii)
“, or if P is a child any person who has responsibility for P,”,
(iii)
in sub-paragraph (a)(iii) after “(1)(b)” insert “, (e) or (f)”,
(iv)
in sub-paragraph (b)—
(aa)
after “seeker” insert “of at least 18 years of age”,
(bb)
at the end omit “or”,
(v)
“, or
(d)
where P is an unaccompanied child for whom it is not possible to stay at a place in accordance with paragraph (a)(i) to (iii), in accommodation provided or arranged by a local authority.”,
(c)
“(4A)
For the purposes of this regulation—
(a)
“boarding school” means a school which—
(i)
provides accommodation for its pupils on its own premises, or
(ii)
arranges accommodation for its pupils to be provided elsewhere (other than in connection with a residential trip away from school),
(b)
“school” has the meaning given by section 135(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 19803.”,
(d)
“(5A)
Where P is a person described in regulation 6(1)(f), paragraph (3)(a)(i) applies with the modification that the address at which P intends to stay for the purposes of regulation 6(2) must be the boarding school at which education and accommodation is due to be provided for P.”,
(e)
“(7A)
Where P is a person described in paragraph (1)(e) who travels to any specified premises referred to in paragraph (3)(a)(i) to (iii) in compliance with paragraph (2), any person who is sharing those premises with P must remain in the premises until the expiry of the period referred to in paragraph (2)(a), or the later of the periods referred to in paragraph (2)(b), depending on which of those periods applies to P.”.