The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 23) Regulations 2021

Amendment of Schedule 7 (testing before arrival in England)

9.  In Schedule 7—

(a) in paragraph 1(c)—

(i) for “three” substitute “two”;

(ii) in paragraph (i), for “service, the service’s scheduled time of departure” substitute—

“service that—

(aa) does not involve the person transiting through a country or territory, the service’s scheduled time of departure;

(bb) involves the person transiting through a country or territory, the scheduled time of departure of the first part of the service”;

(b) after paragraph 1 insert—

“1A.   For the purposes of paragraph 1, a person transits through a country or territory if they arrive in that country or territory for the sole purpose of continuing a journey to England—

(a) on a conveyance other than the conveyance on which they arrived, or

(b) on the same conveyance, having temporarily disembarked from it.”.