The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Public Health Advice for Persons Travelling to Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 No. 179

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2020 No. 179

Public Health

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Public Health Advice for Persons Travelling to Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Made

14th August 2020

Coming into operation in accordance with Regulation 1

The Department of Health M1 makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25B and 25F(2) of the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 M2 .

Marginal Citations

M1 Formerly the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety; see 2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s. 1(5)

M2 1967 c. 36 (N.I.). Part 1A was inserted by section 48 of, and Schedule 18 to, the Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7)

Citation and commencement N.I.

F1 1.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 1 revoked (16.4.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/102), regs. 1(2), 14(a) (with regs. 13, 15)

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 N.I.

F2 2.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F2 Reg. 2 revoked (16.4.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/99), reg. 1(2), Sch. 9 Pt. 2 (with regs. 37, 39, 40)

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Advice for Persons Travelling to Northern Ireland) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 N.I.

F3 3.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F3 Reg. 3 revoked (31.10.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Advice for Persons Travelling to Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/215), regs. 1, 7(1)(b) (with reg. 7(2))

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 14th August 2020

L.S.

Alastair Campbell

A senior officer of the

Department of Health

Regulation 2(5)

SCHEDULE N.I. SCHEDULE 3 TO THE HEALTH PROTECTION (CORONAVIRUS, INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL) REGULATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2020 AS SUBSTITUTED BY THESE REGULATIONS

Regulation 2

“SCHEDULE 3 N.I. Exempt countries and territories

• Anguilla

• Antigua and Barbuda

• Australia

• Austria

• Barbados

• Bermuda

• Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba

• British Antarctic Territory

• British Indian Ocean Territory

• British Virgin Islands

• Brunei

• Cayman Islands

• Croatia

• Curaçao

• Cyprus

• Czech Republic

• Denmark

• Dominica

• Estonia

• Falkland Islands

• Faroe Islands

• Fiji

• Finland

• French Polynesia

• Germany

• Gibraltar

• Greece

• Greenland

• Grenada

• Guadeloupe

• Hong Kong

• Hungary

• Iceland

• Italy

• Jamaica

• Japan

• Latvia

• Liechtenstein

• Lithuania

• Macau

• Malaysia

• Mauritius

• Montserrat

• New Caledonia

• New Zealand

• Norway

• Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands

• Poland

• Réunion

• Saint Barthélemy

• Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

• Saint Kitts and Nevis

• Saint Lucia

• Saint Pierre and Miquelon

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

• San Marino

• Seychelles

• Slovakia

• Slovenia

• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

• South Korea

• The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the Island of Cyprus

• Switzerland

• Taiwan

• Trinidad and Tobago

• Turkey

• Vatican City State

• Vietnam”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (“the International Travel Regulations”) and the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Advice for Persons Travelling to Northern Ireland) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (“the Public Health Advice Regulations”).

Regulation 2 is amended to ensure those travelling to a part of the Republic of Ireland from another part of the Republic of Ireland who pass through Northern Ireland on route are not required to complete a passenger locator form provided they remain in their vehicle at all times.

Regulation 3 is amended to allow those self-isolating to leave their place of self-isolation to exercise alone or with other members of their household.

Aruba, France, Monaco, Malta, the Netherlands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands are removed from the list of exempt countries in Schedule 3.

Two golf tournaments planned for September in Northern Ireland have been added to the list of specified competitions in Schedule 4.

The review period of both regulations is amended to 28 days.