The Department of Health has made a Statutory Rule entitled "The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021", (S.R. 2021 No. 154) which came into operation at 4.00am on 8 June 2021.

The Statutory Rule amends the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (“the principal Regulations”).

An amendment corrects an error in those Regulations, namely a typographical error in Regulation 27 (Amount of fixed penalty) in paragraph (11)(d) regarding the penalty for not taking a test.

Schedule 1 (Red list countries) is amended to include Afghanistan, Bahrain, Costa Rica, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Schedule 2 (Green list countries) is amended to omit Portugal.

Schedule 4 (Persons who are exempt) is amended to refer to the relevant regulations.

Schedule 7 (Managed isolation) is also amended to correct a typographical error in paragraph 11(1)(a) (Permitted reasons to leave or be outside the place of managed isolation) to refer to the relevant paragraph in Schedule 6 relating to consequences of test results for red list and amber list arrivals.

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