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

[F1 Requirement for certain travellers to stay in managed accommodation S

6B.— (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 must, on arrival in Scotland or, as the case may be, immediately after obtaining a managed self-isolation package, travel directly to the accommodation designated in the package using the means of transport designated in the package (where relevant) and, except to the extent that a defence would be available under regulation 9(7), P must not leave the place they are staying within that accommodation until whichever is the later of—

(a) the end of the 10th day after the day on which P arrived in Scotland, or

(b) the end of the period specified in regulation 5G or, as the case may be, 5H.

[F5 (2A) Where regulation 5H(2A) results in a shorter period than paragraph (2)(a), that shorter period applies.]

(3) The place referred to in paragraph (2) means—

(a) the room in the designated accommodation where P is staying, including any balcony,

(b) if connected to the room where P is staying, the room of any person with whom P travelled to Scotland.

(4) The place referred to in paragraph (3) does not include the communal areas within the accommodation except to the extent that P requires to move through any such area in order to access any part of the place where P is staying.

(5) Where P is a child, any person who has responsibility for P during the period P is required to comply with paragraph (2) must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that P complies with the requirement in that paragraph.

(6) A person (“B”), may reside in the place where P is residing pursuant to this Regulation in order to provide assistance P reasonably requires by reason of—

(a) P being a child, or

(b) any disability of P’s,

and paragraph (2) applies to B as it applies to P for the same period that it applies to P.]

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. 6B(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(f)(i) (with reg. 10)

F3 Reg. 6B(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(f)(ii) (with reg. 10)

F4 Reg. 6B(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(f)(iii) (with reg. 10)

F5 Reg. 6B(2A) inserted (20.3.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/158), regs. 1, 3(4)