The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021

Requirement on passengers to provide information E+W

3.—(1) A person who arrives in England from a country or territory outside the common travel area must, subject to paragraph (2), provide on the Passenger Locator Form the information set out in Schedule 6 (“passenger information”) on their arrival.

(2) A person who presents at immigration control at the Channel Tunnel shuttle terminal area in France M1 , with the intention of boarding a shuttle service destined for the United Kingdom, must provide on the Passenger Locator Form their passenger information on so presenting.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a person who arrives in England from within the common travel area who has been in a country or territory outside the common travel area at any time in the period beginning with the 10th day before the date of their arrival in England must provide on the Passenger Locator Form their passenger information on their arrival.

(4) Paragraph (3) does not apply to a person who arrives in England from Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland and who has completed a form equivalent to a Passenger Locator Form pursuant to an enactment in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, specifying—

(a) in the case of a person who is required to comply with regulation 9 (category 2 and category 3 arrivals), an address in England where that person intends to self-isolate; or

(b) in the case of any other person, an address in England where that person intends to stay during the period of 10 days beginning on the day after the date of their arrival in the United Kingdom.

(5) A person who is travelling with a child for whom they have responsibility, must ensure that passenger information is provided in relation to that child on the Passenger Locator Form—

(a) on their arrival in England, in the case of a person described in paragraph (1) or (3); or

(b) when they present at immigration control, in the case of a person described in paragraph (2).

[F1 (6) A person described in paragraph (1) to (3), or who has an obligation under paragraph (5), is treated as having complied with those paragraphs (as applicable) if they provide the specified passenger information on the Passenger Locator Form—

(a) in the case of a person arriving in England on a cruise ship, in the 21 days before they are required to provide the information, or

(b) in any other case, in the 48 hours before they are required to provide the information.]

(7) A person who has provided passenger information in advance in accordance with paragraph (6) must provide evidence that they have done so if requested by an immigration officer.

(8) If passenger information changes or becomes available to a person required to self-isolate during that person's period of self-isolation that person must, as soon as reasonably possible take all reasonable steps to complete a Passenger Locator Form, or a new Passenger Locator Form, as the case may be.

(9) Nothing in this regulation requires a person to provide any information if that information is not within their possession or control.

(10) Subject to [F2 paragraphs (11) and (12)] [F3 the] following are not required to comply with this regulation—

(a) a person described in regulation 9(14);

(b) a person described in any of paragraphs 1 to 4 of Schedule 4;

[F4 (bza) a category 1 arrival who would have been a person described in paragraph 2 or 4 of Schedule 4 if that person had arrived from a category 2 country or territory;]

[F5 (ba) a member of the family forming part of the household of a person falling within paragraph 1(2A) of Schedule 4;]

(c) a person described in any of paragraphs 5 to 10 of Schedule 4 who meets the condition in paragraph 11 of that Schedule;

[F6 (ca) a person described in paragraph 12A of Schedule 4;]

(d) a person described in paragraph 15 of Schedule 4 [F7 ;]

[F8 (e) a person described in paragraph 46 of Schedule 4.]

(11) Notwithstanding paragraph (10), a person is required to comply with this regulation if they—

(a) are a person described in paragraph (10), other than a person described in paragraph [F9 1(1), 1(2), 1(2A) [F10 , 12A] or 46 of Schedule 4 or sub-paragraph (ba) of paragraph (10)]; and

(b) have, at any time in the period beginning with the 10th day before the date of their arrival in England, departed from or transited through a category 3 country or territory.

[F11 (12) Notwithstanding paragraph (10), a person (“P”) is required to comply with this regulation if—

(a) P is a person described in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 4, where the relevant international event referred to in that paragraph is the COP, and

(b) P is not—

(i) a person invited by Her Majesty’s Government to attend both the COP World Leaders summit event and the COP, or

(ii) a person described in Schedule 4A.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 3(6) substituted (1.10.2021) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 12) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1066), regs. 1(4), 5(2)

F2 Words in reg. 3(10) substituted (30.8.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 9) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/966), regs. 1(2), 4(2)

F3 Word in reg. 3(10) inserted (22.6.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/731), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)(i)

F4 Reg. 3(10)(bza) inserted (19.7.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/865), regs. 1(2), 5 (with reg. 23)

F5 Reg. 3(10)(ba) inserted (8.7.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/766), regs. 1(4), 3(a) (with reg. 16(1))

F6 Reg. 3(10)(ca) inserted (22.9.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 12) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1066), regs. 1(2), 5(3)(a)

F7 Reg. 3(10)(d): semicolon substituted for full stop (22.9.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 12) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1066), regs. 1(2), 5(3)(b)

F8 Reg. 3(10)(e) inserted (22.6.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/731), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)(ii)

F9 Words in reg. 3(11)(a) substituted (8.7.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/766), regs. 1(4), 3(b) (with reg. 16(1))

F10 Word in reg. 3(11)(a) inserted (22.9.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 12) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1066), regs. 1(2), 5(4)

F11 Reg. 3(12) inserted (30.8.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 9) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/966), regs. 1(2), 4(3)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 3 in force at 17.5.2021 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)

Marginal Citations

M1 Article 4(1) of the Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1813) has the effect of extending all frontier control enactments to the control zone in France. A “frontier control enactment” is an enactment which contains provision relating to frontier controls and the definition of “frontier controls” in Schedule 1 to that Order includes controls in relation to health. The Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and these Regulations made under it therefore apply in the control zone.