The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2021

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2021

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2.—(1) The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2021(1) are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In regulation 7A (requirement to ensure that persons are fully vaccinated, or exempt, when in certain places) after paragraph (6) insert—

(7) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a nominated representative of an organisation which has been accredited for admittance to the COP Blue Zone by the UNFCCC Secretariat is, in relation to premises in the COP Green Zone, deemed to comply with paragraph (3)(a).

(8) In this regulation—

“Blue Zone” means the Scottish Event Campus, Exhibition Way, Glasgow G3 8YW,

“Conference of the Parties” means, except in relation to the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC,

“COP” means the conference convened by the Conference of the Parties, comprising—

(a)

the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties,

(b)

the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol,

(c)

the third session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement,

(d)

all related pre-sessional meetings, sessions of subsidiary bodies and additional meetings, convened in the United Kingdom,

“Green Zone” means the Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1EA,

“Kyoto Protocol” means the Protocol to the UNFCCC signed in Kyoto on 11 December 1997(2),

“Paris Agreement” means the agreement adopted at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, signed in Paris on 12 December 2015(3),

“UNFCCC” means the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted in New York on 9 May 1992(4).

(9) Paragraphs (7) and (8) cease to have effect on 13 November 2021..

(1)

S.S.I. 2021/277, as relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2021/349.

(2)

Cm. 6485.

(3)

Cm. 9338.

(4)

Cm. 2833.