(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (“the principal regulations”).
Regulation 3 amends regulation 2A of the principal regulations to exclude certain arrivals from non-exempt but not acute risk countries or territories (primarily, those who have received a full course of vaccination in, or who are under 18 and ordinarily resident in, a specified country) from certain testing and self-isolation requirements.
Regulation 4 adds the European Tour Golf – Hero Open to the list of competitions that are specified in Part 1 of schedule 3A of the principal regulations for the purposes of elite sport. It also adds an entry to the list of specified competitions in Part 2 of schedule 3A of the principal regulations to provide that elite sportspersons who travel to Scotland having departed from or transited through Turkey within the preceding 10 days in order to participate in European club football fixtures are exempt from the managed isolation requirements in regulations 6A and 6B of the principal regulations.
Impact assessments are being prepared and will be published online at www.legislation.gov.uk.