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

UK Statutory Instrument 2023 No. 2 — creates 5 criminal offences.

5offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 4 January 2023
In force from: 5 January 2023
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Alcohol licensing, gambling, smoke-free and public health
Made under: Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984

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 introduce requirements in relation to people who arrive in England having boarded a flight that originated in the People’s Republic of China (excluding flights that originated from the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong or Macao). The Regulations relate to a requirement for such people to possess notification of a negative result from a test for SARS-CoV-2. Part 2 provides, subject to exceptions specified in the Schedule, that adults must possess notification of a negative test result that complies with regulations 4 and 5 for themselves and any children with whom they are travelling. Part 2 also requires unaccompanied children aged between 12 and 17 to possess notification of a negative test result for themselves. Part 3 requires operators of commercial services to implement and maintain systems to ensure that the people they carry possess the notification required by Part 2. Part 3 also requires operators to retain and provide records relating to compliance with these obligations. Part 4 deals with enforcement, offences and penalties, including fixed penalty notices. It also provides for the expiry of these Regulations. An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument.

Offences created by this instrument

A person commits an offence if they fail to comply with a requirement in regulation 3 regulation 8(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
An operator commits an offence if it fails to comply with a requirement in— a regulation 6; b regulation 7 regulation 8(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
An offence under— a paragraph (1) is punishable on summary conviction by a fine; b paragraph (2) is punishable on… regulation 8(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
a paragraph (1) is punishable on summary conviction by a fine regulation 8(3)(a) · Status not determined · Strict liability
b paragraph (2) is punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale regulation 8(3)(b) · Status not determined · Strict liability

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 4 January 2023
Instrument made (signed into law) 4 January 2023
Laid before the House of Commons 4 January 2023 · Commons
Laid before the House of Lords 4 January 2023 · Lords
Instrument comes into force as law 5 January 2023
Considered by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 24 January 2023 · Lords
Information paragraph provided by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 24 January 2023 · Lords
Considered by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 8 February 2023 · Commons, Lords
Drawn to the special attention of the Houses by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 8 February 2023 · Commons, Lords
Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) draws the special attention of both Houses to the instrument on the grounds that it is defectively drafted 8 February 2023 · Commons, Lords
Objection period ends 27 February 2023
Instrument remains law 27 February 2023
Procedure concluded in the House of Commons and the House of Lords 27 February 2023 · Commons, Lords

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