The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 18) Regulations 2020

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 1223 (W. 277)

Public Health, Wales

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 18) Regulations 2020

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.

Title, coming into force and interpretation E+W

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

I1 Reg. 1 in force at 6.11.2020 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)

Removal of Denmark from the list of exempt countries and territories E+W

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

I2 Reg. 2 in force at 6.11.2020 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)

Transitional provision E+W

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

I3 Reg. 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

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(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.

(1)

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.

(2)

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).