The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel from China) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Amendment of the China Regulations

2.—(1) In regulation 2 of the China Regulations—

(a) in paragraph (3)(a)(ii), for “having arrived in a country or territory (“the third country or territory”) on a flight which departed from mainland China” substitute “in a country or territory other than mainland China (“a third country or territory”) in the course of P’s journey from mainland China to England”;

(b) in paragraph (4)—

(i) in the words before sub-paragraph (a), after “flight”, insert “in the course of P’s journey from mainland China to England”;

(ii) for sub-paragraphs (a) to (c), substitute—

“(a) P continues their journey to England on a flight—

(i) with the same flight operator as the other flights in P’s journey, or

(ii) with a different flight operator under an arrangement by which the entire journey to England is treated as a single journey, and

(b) P remains, at all times whilst waiting to depart from a third country or territory, within the airport at which they arrived and departs on a flight from that airport without first passing through immigration control.”