PART 3S

[F1Persons not required to comply with regulation 6A or 6BS

7A.—(1) The persons mentioned in paragraphs (2) and (3) are not required to comply with regulation 6A or 6B.

(2) A person who, by virtue of regulation 6(1), is required to comply with regulation 6(2).

(3) A person who arrives in Scotland from outside the common travel area F2... and who, 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 [F3or who is described in regulation 6A(1)(b)], where that person is—

(a)a person described in paragraph 1(1)(a) to (k) of schedule 2 and meets the conditions set out in paragraph 1(2) of that schedule,

[F4(ab)subject to paragraph (4), a person described in paragraph 1(1A) of schedule 2,]

(b)described in any of paragraphs 2(1), 3(1), F5[F6... 4C, F5... 4E(1),] 14(1), 14A(1), 15, 16, F7... 17 [F8or 30] of schedule 2.

[F9(ba)a person described in paragraph 4B(1) of schedule 2, unless the person has travelled to the United Kingdom to work, or has been repatriated to the United Kingdom after working, on board a cruise ship,

(bb)a person described in paragraph 4D of schedule 2, unless the person has travelled to the United Kingdom to work on board a cruise ship or after completing work on board a cruise ship,]

[F10(c)a person described in paragraph 38(1) of schedule 2, where that person has—

(i)travelled to Scotland having departed from, or transited through, an acute risk country or territory in order to participate in an event specified in Part 2 of schedule 3A, or

(ii)returned to Scotland having departed from, or transited through, an acute risk country or territory, where that person travelled to or transited through that acute risk country or territory in order to participate in an event specified in Part 2 of schedule 3A.]

[F11(4) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), regulations 6A and 6B apply to a person (“P”) who—

(a)is a person described in paragraph 1(1A) of schedule 2, who is attending the COP, and

(b)is not—

(i)a person invited by Her Majesty’s Government to attend both the World Leaders summit event and the COP,

(ii)a person described in schedule 2ZA (COP representatives).

(5) Where regulations 6A and 6B apply by virtue of paragraph (4), and P satisfies—

(a)the requirements in regulation 2A(2), (3), (3A), (4), (5) or (6), or

(b)the requirements in paragraphs (6) and (7),

these Regulations apply to P as if, in regulation 6B(2)(a), the reference to “the 10th day” were a reference to “the 5th day”.

(6) P satisfies the requirements in this paragraph if—

(a)P has completed a course of doses of an authorised vaccine, and P received the final dose before the start of the period beginning with the 9th day before the date of P’s arrival in the United Kingdom,

(b)P has participated, or is participating, in a clinical trial regulated by the relevant regulator in the country where the trial is carried out of a vaccine for vaccination against coronavirus, or

(c)P is under the age of 18 when P enters the United Kingdom for the purposes of attending or facilitating the COP.

(7) P satisfies the requirements of this paragraph if P has declared on the Passenger Locator Form that P meets the applicable requirement in paragraph (6).

(8) For the purposes of paragraph (6)—

(a)P has completed a course of doses of an authorised vaccine if P has received the complete course of doses of that vaccine as specified in the manufacturer’s guidance for that vaccine,

(b)“authorised vaccine” means a vaccine against coronavirus authorised, in relation to doses received in another country, for supply in that country—

(i)following evaluation by the relevant regulator for that country, or

(ii)otherwise by the government of that country, or pursuant to its authority,

(c)in sub-paragraph (b), “another country” means a country other than the United Kingdom or a relevant country for the purposes of regulation 2A.]]

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