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Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 9A and cross-heading inserted (2.8.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/225), regs. 1(2), 5(1) (with reg. 11)
9A.—[F2(1) This paragraph applies in respect of a person (P) who is—
(a)exempt, by virtue of one of the provisions of Part 2 of Schedule 4 set out in paragraph (2), from the requirement to book and undertake tests under regulation 8, and
(b)a non-eligible non-red list arrival.]
[F3(2) Those provisions are—
(a)border security duties,
(b)defence personnel, visiting forces and government contractors,
(c)transport workers (but not civil aviation inspectors),
(d)transporting human cells or blood,
(e)seasonal and temporary horticultural and food processing workers.]
[F4(3) Subject to paragraphs (6) and (8), P must undertake a workforce test for day 2.]
(4) Where P does not undertake a workforce test as required by this regulation by reason of a reasonable excuse (see regulation 25A), P must, as soon as practicable after the matters giving rise to the reasonable excuse no longer apply, undertake a replacement workforce test.
(5) Where a replacement workforce test is undertaken instead of—
(a)a workforce test for day 2, P is to be treated as if P had undertaken a workforce test for day 2 in accordance with this regulation,
F5(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F6(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(6) Subject to paragraph (8), for any period during which P is a recurring work traveller, paragraph (3) does not apply and instead P must undertake a workforce test—
(a)before the end of the second day after the day P first arrives in Northern Ireland during the period during which P is a recurring work traveller, or as soon as reasonably practicable during the time P is next in Northern Ireland after the end of the second day,
(b)subsequently, within each successive period of three days, beginning with the day after the day on which P undertook the previous workforce test.
(7) P is a “recurring work traveller” where—
(a)P is undertaking work that requires P to enter and leave Northern Ireland on a daily basis, or at intervals of no greater than two days, and is entering and leaving accordingly, and
(b)P is not a road haulage worker, within the meaning of paragraph 22 of Schedule 4.
(8) Paragraphs (3) and (6) do not apply where—
[F7(a)P is a transport worker (but not a civil aviation inspector, nor a road haulage worker), within the meaning of Schedule 4,]
F8(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c)P—
(i)does not disembark from or leave the conveyance on which P travelled to Northern Ireland at any time when the conveyance is moored at a port in Northern Ireland or is otherwise stationary in Northern Ireland, or
(ii)travelled to Northern Ireland on the same conveyance on which they left Northern Ireland and did not disembark from or leave that conveyance at any time when it was moored at a port in a country outside the common travel area or was otherwise stationary in such a country.
(9) In these Regulations—
(a)“a replacement workforce test” means a workforce test complying with the requirements that apply to the workforce test that was missed,
(b)“a workforce test” means a test for the detection of coronavirus which is provided or administered under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972,
(c)“a workforce test for day 2” means a workforce test which is undertaken no later than the end of the second day after the day on which P arrived in Northern Ireland,
F9(d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F10(e). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(10) Schedule 6A (workforce tests) makes further provision about workforce tests (including the consequences of testing).]
Textual Amendments
F2Reg. 9A(1) substituted (11.2.2022 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/43), regs. 1(4), 9(1)(a) (with reg. 1(5))
F3Reg. 9A(2) substituted (13.2.2022 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/46), regs. 1(3), 3(2)(a) (with reg. 1(4))
F4Reg. 9A(3) substituted (11.2.2022 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/43), regs. 1(4), 9(1)(b) (with reg. 1(5))
F5Reg. 9A(5)(b) omitted (11.2.2022 at 4.00 a.m.) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/43), regs. 1(4), 9(1)(c) (with reg. 1(5))
F6Reg. 9A(5)(c) omitted (11.2.2022 at 4.00 a.m.) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/43), regs. 1(4), 9(1)(c) (with reg. 1(5))
F7Reg. 9A(8)(a) substituted (13.2.2022 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/46), regs. 1(3), 3(2)(b) (with reg. 1(4))
F8Reg. 9A(8)(b) omitted (13.2.2022 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/46), regs. 1(3), 3(2)(c) (with reg. 1(4))
F9Reg. 9A(9)(d) omitted (11.2.2022 at 4.00 a.m.) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/43), regs. 1(4), 9(1)(d) (with reg. 1(5))
F10Reg. 9A(9)(e) omitted (11.2.2022 at 4.00 a.m.) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/43), regs. 1(4), 9(1)(d) (with reg. 1(5))
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