SCHEDULE 2E+W[F1Exempt persons]

PART 1E+WPersons not required to comply with regulation [F24, 5, 7 or 8]

3.—(1) A person who is a Crown servant, a government contractor, or a member of a visiting force, who—E+W

(a)is required to undertake work necessary to the delivery of essential defence activities, F3...

[F4(aa)has travelled from an exempt country or territory on a vessel or aircraft operated by, or in support of, Her Majesty’s armed forces or by, or in support of, a visiting force and that vessel or aircraft has not taken on any persons, docked in any port or landed in any non-exempt country or territory, or]

(b)has, immediately before the person's arrival, been aboard a vessel operated by or in support of Her Majesty's Naval Service [F5or by, or in support of, a visiting force] for a continuous period of at least 14 days and that vessel has not taken on any persons or docked in any port [F6in a non-exempt country or territory] during that period.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

(a)defence” has the meaning given in section 2(4) of the Official Secrets Act 1989 M1,

(b)visiting force” means a visiting force within the meaning given in section 12(1) of the Visiting Forces Act 1952 M2, where that force is from a country which is listed under section 1(1)(a) or designated under section 1(1)(b) or 1(2) of the Visiting Forces Act 1952 M3, or which is a country member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 2 para. 3 in force at 8.6.2020 at 12.01 a.m., see reg. 1(2)

Marginal Citations

M21952 c. 67. The definition of “visiting force” in section 12(1) was amended by paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 15 to the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33).

M3Section 1(a) has been amended numerous times. The countries listed are: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Ghana, Malaysia, the Republic of Cyprus, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanganyika, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Kenya, Zanzibar, Malawi, Zambia, Malta, The Gambia, Guyana, Botswana, Lesotho, Singapore, Barbados, Mauritius, Swaziland, Tonga, Fiji, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Dominica, St. Lucia, Kiribati, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa and Nauru, Zimbabwe, the New Hebrides, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Brunei, Maldives, Namibia, Cameroon and Mozambique.