The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 26) Regulations 2021

UK Statutory Instrument 2021 No. 1463 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 16 December 2021
In force from: 18 December 2021
Extent: Not stated
Subject: COVID-19 emergency legislation (2020-2022)
Made under: Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, S.I. 2021/1107

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/582) (“the International Travel Regulations”). Regulation 3 amends regulation 3J of the International Travel Regulations so that eligible travellers in transit are not required to take a day 2 test under that provision. Regulation 4 amends regulation 3K of the International Travel Regulations— a to make clear that those persons to whom the work place testing regime in regulation 7 or 8 of the International Travel Regulations applies are not required to comply with that regulation; b to ensure that the other exemptions from the requirement to self-isolate under that regulation are consistent with those in regulation 9(15); c so that eligible travellers who are not required by reason of their age, or are not able by reason of a disability, to take a day 2 test can stop self-isolating when a member of the party which they travelled with receives the result of their day 2 test; d to enable a child who is under the age of 5 and travels unaccompanied to take an optional day 2 test following their arrival in England. If the result of that test is negative, they may cease to self-isolate. Amendments are made to the definition of “required notification” for the purposes of regulations 3ZA and 17 of the International Travel Regulations so that a notification issued by an approved third country or territory may be accepted if it states the name of the country or territory in which the relevant test was carried out (regulations 5 and 8). Regulation 6 amends regulation 19 of the International Travel Regulations to create an offence of knowingly giving false information pursuant to regulation 2A of the Self-Isolation Regulations, as it applies by virtue of paragraph 3(2A) of Schedule 8. Consequential amendments are made to Schedule 14 to the Regulations (amount of fixed penalties) (regulation 9). Regulation 7 adds additional sporting events to the list in Schedule 5 to the International Travel Regulations. These Regulations also make other minor and consequential amendments to the International Travel Regulations. These Regulations also make minor amendments to the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010, to remove obsolete cross references. An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument. An explanatory memorandum has been published alongside this instrument at www.legislation.gov.uk.

Offences created by this instrument

A person (“P”) who knowingly gives false information pursuant to any relevant provision of the Self-Isolation… regulation 6 · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind

What Parliament said about it

Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.

How Parliament handled it

This instrument became law without a debate or a vote. Under the negative procedure it took effect unless a motion to stop it succeeded, and none was tabled.

Procedure: Made negative — law unless a motion to stop it succeeded
Could either House amend it?: No. A statutory instrument is put to each House as a whole thing, to be approved or not. Neither House can change a word of it.
Committee: Drawn to the special attention of the Houses by a scrutiny committee

Procedural history

Instrument created 16 December 2021
Instrument made (signed into law) 16 December 2021
Laid before the House of Commons 17 December 2021 · Commons
Laid before the House of Lords 17 December 2021 · Lords
Instrument comes into force as law 18 December 2021
Considered by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 11 January 2022 · Lords
Information paragraph provided by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 11 January 2022 · Lords
Considered by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 26 January 2022 · Commons, Lords
Drawn to the special attention of the Houses by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 26 January 2022 · Commons, Lords
Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) draws the special attention of both Houses to the instrument on the grounds that it requires elucidation 26 January 2022 · Commons, Lords
Objection period ends 23 February 2022
Instrument remains law 23 February 2022
Procedure concluded in the House of Commons and the House of Lords 23 February 2022 · Commons, Lords

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