The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Persons Travelling to Wales etc.) Regulations 2020

PART 1 General

Title and coming into force

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Persons Travelling to Wales etc.) Regulations 2020.

(2) Regulations 2 to 9 come into force on 17 June 2020.

(3) This regulation and regulations 10 and 11 come into force when these Regulations are made.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“authorised person” (“person awdurdodedig”) means—

(a)

in relation to passengers arriving on a vessel, the Secretary of State;

(b)

in relation to passengers arriving on an aircraft, the Civil Aviation Authority(1);

“common travel area” (“ardal deithio gyffredin”) has the meaning given in section 1(3) of the Immigration Act 1971(2);

“coronavirus” (“coronafeirws”) means severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2);

“international passenger service” (“gwasanaeth teithwyr rhyngwladol”) means a commercial service by which passengers travel on a vessel or aircraft from outside the common travel area to a port in Wales;

“port”(“porthladd”) includes any airport, heliport or seaport;

“vessel” (“llestr”) means every description of vessel used in navigation (including a hovercraft within the meaning of Hovercraft Act 1968(3)) which is 24 metres or more in length.

(1)

The Civil Aviation Authority is a body corporate established by section 1 of the Civil Aviation Act 1971 (c. 75).

(2)

1971 c. 77. That section provides that the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and the Republic of Ireland are collectively referred to as “the common travel area”.

(3)

1968 c. 59.