PART 2 E+WAmendments to the list of exempt countries in Schedule 3 to the International Travel Regulations

Addition of Portugal to the list of exempt countries and territories E+W

2.  In Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the International Travel Regulations (exempt countries and territories outside the common travel area), at the appropriate place insert—

“Portugal”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 2 in force at 22.8.2020 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)

Transitional provision in connection with regulation 2 E+W

3.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where, immediately before 4.00 a.m. on 22 August 2020—

(a) a person (“P”) was subject to an isolation requirement by virtue of having arrived in Wales from, or having been in Portugal, and

(b) P's last day of isolation is 22 August 2020 or a day after that day.

(2) The addition of Portugal to Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the International Travel Regulations does not affect the isolation requirement as it applies to P, nor affect how P's last day of isolation is determined under the International Travel Regulations.

(3) Paragraph (4) applies where a person (“P”)—

(a) arrives in Wales at or after 4.00 a.m. on 22 August 2020, and

(b) was in Portugal within the period of 14 days ending with the day of P's arrival in Wales.

(4) For the purposes of regulations 7(1) and 8(1) of the International Travel Regulations, the question of whether P has arrived in Wales from, or having been in, a non-exempt country or territory is, in relation to Portugal, to be determined by reference to whether Portugal was a non-exempt country when P was last there (and not by reference to Portugal's status upon P's arrival in Wales).

(5) In this regulation, “isolation requirement” has the meaning given by regulation 10(2) of the International Travel Regulations; and references to P's last day of isolation are to be interpreted in accordance with regulation 12 of those Regulations.

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 3 in force at 22.8.2020 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)

Removal of countries from the list of exempt countries and territories E+W

4.  In Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the International Travel Regulations (exempt countries and territories outside the common travel area), omit—

“Austria”

“Croatia”

“Trinidad and Tobago”.

Commencement Information

I3 Reg. 4 in force at 22.8.2020 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)

Transitional provision in connection with regulation 4 E+W

5.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where a person (“P”)—

(a) arrives in Wales at or after 4.00 a.m. on 22 August 2020, and

(b) was last in a country listed in regulation 4—

(i) within the period of 14 days ending with the day of P's arrival in Wales, and

(ii) before 4.00 a.m. on 22 August 2020.

(2) P is, by virtue of having been in that country, to be treated for the purposes of regulations 7(1) and 8(1) of the International Travel Regulations as having arrived in Wales from, or having been in, a non-exempt country or territory.

Commencement Information

I4 Reg. 5 in force at 22.8.2020 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)