Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022

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Introduction

1 Citation, commencement, extent, application and interpretation

2 Amendment of the Principal Regulations

3 Amendment of regulation 2 (interpretation and introduction of Schedules 1 to 4)

4 Amendment of regulation 3 (requirement on passengers to provide information)

5 Amendment of regulation 3ZA (requirement to possess notification of negative test result)

6 Amendment of regulation 3A (interpretation of Part 1B)

7 Omission of regulations 3I, 3J and 3K (testing and self-isolation requirements on eligible travellers)

8 Amendment of regulation 5 (requirements relating to tests)

9 Amendment of regulation 6 (requirement to book and undertake tests)

10 Amendment of regulation 7 (requirement to undertake workforce tests)

11 Omission of regulation 8 (test requirements: offshore installation workers)

12 Amendment of regulation 9 (further requirements on arrivals from category 2 countries and territories)

13 Amendment of regulation 10 (further requirements on arrivals from category 3 countries or territories)

14 Amendment of regulation 11 (enforcement of requirement to self-isolate)

15 Amendment of regulation 13 (passenger information requirement)

16 Amendment of regulation 14 (required information and manner)

17 Insertion of regulation 15A

18 Omission of regulations 16 to 18 (requirements on operators to ensure passenger compliance)

19 Amendment of regulation 18A (requirements on test providers)

20 Amendment of regulation 18B (requirements on other persons carrying out testing services)

21 Amendment of regulation 19 (offences, proceedings and information)

22 Amendment of regulation 20 (fixed penalty notices)

23 Amendment of regulation 22 (power to use and disclose information)

24 Omission of Schedule 1 (category 1 countries and territories)

25 Substitution of Schedule 4

26 Omission of Schedule 4A

27 Omission of Schedule 5 (list of sporting events)

28 Amendment of Schedule 6 (passenger information)

29 Amendment of Schedule 7 (testing before arrival in England)

30 Amendment of Schedule 8 (mandatory testing after arrival in England)

31 Amendment of Schedule 9 (workforce tests)

32 Omission of Schedule 10

33 Amendment of Schedule 11 (additional measures applicable to arrivals from category 3 countries and territories)

34 Substitution of Schedule 12 (information for passengers)

35 Amendment of Schedule 14 (amount of fixed penalties)

36 Amendment of the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010

37 Transitional and saving provision

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Explanatory note

Amendment of regulation 2 (interpretation and introduction of Schedules 1 to 4)3.

(1)

Regulation 2 is amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph (1)—

(a)

omit the following definitions—

(i)

“category 1 arrival”;

(ii)

“category 1 country or territory”;

(iii)

“the Conference of the Parties”;

(iv)

“the COP”;

(v)

“the COP World Leaders summit event”;

(b)

after the definition of “COVID-19 vaccination eligibility criteria” insert—

““Crown servant” has the meaning given in section 12(1)(a) to (e) of the Official Secrets Act 19893;”;

(c)

omit the definition of “day 2 LFD test”;

(d)

after the definition of “European microstate” insert—

““government contractor” has the meaning given in section 12(2) of the Official Secrets Act 1989;”;

(e)

omit the definition of “the Kyoto Protocol”;

(f)

after the definition of “managed self-isolation package” insert—

““non-category 3 arrival” means a person who arrives in England without having departed from or transited through a category 3 country or territory in the period beginning with the 10th day before the date of their arrival in England;”;

(g)

in the definition of “operator”, omit “except where the context otherwise requires,”;

(h)

omit the definition of “the Paris Agreement”;

(i)

after the definition of “relevant service” insert—

““Schedule 11-exempt passenger” means a person to whom Schedule 11 does not apply only by virtue of paragraph 2 of that Schedule;”;

(j)

omit the definition of “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”.

(3)

Omit paragraph (6).

3

1989 c. 6. Section 12 was amended by paragraph 22 of Schedule 10 to the Reserve Forces Act 1996 (c. 14), by paragraph 30 of Schedule 12 to the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38), by paragraph 26 of Schedule 8 to the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), by paragraph 9(3) of Schedule 13 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47), by paragraph 9 of Schedule 6 to the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (c. 32), by paragraph 6 of Schedule 14 to the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), by paragraph 58 of Schedule 4 to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, by paragraph 34 of Schedule 10, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 12, to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) and by paragraph 36 of Schedule 8 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22).