The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Scotland) Regulations 2020

[F1 Requirement for certain travellers to possess managed self-isolation package S

6A.— (1) This regulation applies where a person (“P”) arrives in Scotland from—

(a) outside the common travel area, [F2 or]

[F3 (b) elsewhere within the common travel area where P has, at any time in the period beginning with the 10th day before the date of their arrival in Scotland, departed from or transited through an acute risk country or territory.]

F4 (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2) P may only enter Scotland at one of the following ports—

(a) Aberdeen Airport,

(b) Edinburgh Airport,

(c) Glasgow Airport,

(d) any military airfield or port.

(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply to P where the aircraft on which P is travelling lands at an airport not mentioned in paragraph (2) for—

(a) a reason relating to the safety or security of the aircraft, or any person aboard it,

(b) any other emergency reason, or

(c) the reason that military personnel disembark at an airport not mentioned in paragraph (2).

(4) P must be in possession of a managed self-isolation package.

(5) The requirement in paragraph (4) may be complied with by P obtaining a managed self-isolation package either before P’s arrival in Scotland or immediately upon P’s arrival in Scotland.

(6) In this regulation, a “managed self-isolation package” means—

(a) a booking for a place in accommodation designated by the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of this regulation in relation to P’s port of arrival in Scotland,

(b) a booking for transport facilitated by the Scottish Ministers from P’s port of arrival in Scotland to the accommodation referred to in sub-paragraph (a), and

(c) a testing package within the meaning given in regulation 5C.

(7) If P is a child, any person who has responsibility for P when P is travelling to Scotland must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that P complies with paragraph (4).

(8) The Scottish Ministers, or a person designated by the Scottish Ministers, may impose a charge for the managed self-isolation package and the Scottish Ministers—

(a) must publish details of such charges in such manner as they consider appropriate, and

(b) may recover any sum owed by P pursuant to such a charge as a debt.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Regs. 6A-6D inserted (15.2.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Managed Accommodation and Testing) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/74), regs. 1(2), 6(2) (with reg. 17)

F2 Word in reg. 6A(1)(a) inserted (26.2.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Managed Accommodation and Testing etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/107), regs. 1(2), 4(e)(i) (with reg. 10)

F3 Reg. 6A(1)(b) substituted (26.2.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Managed Accommodation and Testing etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/107), regs. 1(2), 4(e)(ii) (with reg. 10)

F4 Reg. 6A(1)(c) omitted (26.2.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Managed Accommodation and Testing etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/107), regs. 1(2), 4(e)(iii) (with reg. 10)