The Department of Health has made a Statutory Rule entitled "The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Amendment No. 8) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021", (S.R. 2021 No. 54) which come into operation at 4.00 am on 9 March 2021.

The Statutory Rule amends the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 to expand the definition of aircraft crew in Schedule 2, which is relevant to exemptions from the requirements imposed by those Regulations, to include additional personnel carried on aircraft, remove a specific exemption in Schedule 2A for those personnel, which is redundant following the above change and update the list of specified competitions in Schedule 4, which is relevant to the exemptions for sportspersons.

The rule may be purchased from the Stationery office at www.tsoshop.co.uk or by contacting TSO Customer Services on 0333 202 5070, or viewed online at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr