Welsh Statutory Instruments
Public Health, Wales
Made
5 November 2020
Coming into force
at 4.00 a.m. on 6 November 2020
Laid before Senedd Cymru
at 3.00 p.m. on 6 November 2020
The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 45B and 45P(2) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984(1), make the following Regulations.
1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 18) Regulations 2020.
(2) These Regulations come into force at 4.00 a.m. on 6 November 2020.
(3) In these Regulations, the “International Travel Regulations” means the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) Regulations 2020(2).
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 1 in force at 6.11.2020 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)
2. In Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the International Travel Regulations (exempt countries and territories outside the common travel area), omit “Denmark”.
Commencement Information
I2Reg. 2 in force at 6.11.2020 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)
3.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where a person (“P”)—
(a)arrives in Wales at or after 4.00 a.m. on 6 November 2020, and
(b)was last in Denmark—
(i)within the period of 14 days ending with the day of P’s arrival in Wales, and
(ii)before 4.00 a.m. on 6 November 2020.
(2) P is, by virtue of having been in Denmark, to be treated for the purposes of regulations 7(1) and 8(1) of the International Travel Regulations as having arrived in Wales from, or having been in, a non-exempt country or territory.
Commencement Information
I3Reg. 3 in force at 6.11.2020 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)
Vaughan Gething
Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/574 (W. 132)) to remove Denmark from the list of exempt countries and territories in those Regulations and to make transitional provision.
The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared as to the likely cost and benefit of complying with these Regulations.
1984 c. 22. Part 2A was inserted by section 129 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14). The function of making regulations under Part 2A is conferred on “the appropriate Minister”. Under section 45T(6) of the 1984 Act the appropriate Minister as respects Wales, is the Welsh Ministers.
S.I. 2020/574 (W. 132) as amended by S.I. 2020/595 (W. 136), S.I. 2020/714 (W. 160), S.I. 2020/726 (W. 163), S.I. 2020/804 (W. 177), S.I. 2020/817 (W. 179), S.I. 2020/840 (W. 185), S.I. 2020/868 (W. 190), S.I. 2020/886 (W. 196), S.I. 2020/917 (W. 205), S.I. 2020/942, S.I. 2020/944 (W. 210), S.I. 2020/962 (W. 216), S.I. 2020/981 (W. 220), S.I. 2020/1015 (W. 226), S.I. 2020/1042 (W. 231), S.I. 2020/1080 (W. 243), S.I. 2020/1098 (W. 249), S.I. 2020/1133 (W. 258), S.I. 2020/1165 (W. 263) and S.I. 2020/1191 (W. 269).