Citation and commencement

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 16) Regulations 2020.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 2nd October 2020.

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020

2. —(1) The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020( 2 ) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 4(7)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), omit “or”,

(b) after sub-paragraph (b), insert—

“ , or

(c) the beginning of the period for which they are required to self-isolate under regulation 2(2)(a)(i) of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020 ( 3 ) (after which they are subject to that self-isolation requirement). ”

(3) In regulation 7—

(a) in paragraph (5), for “6(1)(b) or (c)” substitute “6(1)(c)”;

(b) after paragraph (5), insert—

“ (5A) Where the fixed penalty notice is issued to a person in respect of an offence described in regulation 6(1)(b), then the amount specified under paragraph (4)(c) must be—

(a) in the case of the first fixed penalty notice, £1,000,

(b) in the case of the second fixed penalty notice, £2,000,

(c) in the case of the third fixed penalty notice, £4,000,

(d) in the case of the fourth and subsequent fixed penalty notice, £10,000.

(5B) In determining how many fixed penalty notices a person (“P”) has received for the purposes of paragraph 5A, if P received more than one fixed penalty notice for an offence described in regulation 6(1)(b) of these Regulations before 2nd October 2020, only one of those notices may be taken into account. ” .