Citation, commencement, extent, application and interpretation

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel from China) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023.

(2) These Regulations come into force at 4.00 p.m. on 6th January 2023.

(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, and apply in relation to England only.

(4) In these Regulations, “ the China Regulations ” means the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel from China) (England) Regulations 2023 ( 2 ).

Amendment of the China Regulations

2. —(1) In regulation 2 of the China Regulations—

(a) in paragraph (3)(a)(ii), for “having arrived in a country or territory (“the third country or territory”) on a flight which departed from mainland China” substitute “in a country or territory other than mainland China (“a third country or territory”) in the course of P’s journey from mainland China to England” ;

(b) in paragraph (4)—

(i) in the words before sub-paragraph (a), after “flight”, insert “in the course of P’s journey from mainland China to England” ;

(ii) for sub-paragraphs (a) to (c), substitute—

“ (a) P continues their journey to England on a flight—

(i) with the same flight operator as the other flights in P’s journey, or

(ii) with a different flight operator under an arrangement by which the entire journey to England is treated as a single journey, and

(b) P remains, at all times whilst waiting to depart from a third country or territory, within the airport at which they arrived and departs on a flight from that airport without first passing through immigration control. ”