Health Act 1947 (Exempted Traveller) (Covid-19) Regulations 2021
Jurisdiction | Ireland |
Citation | IR SI 134/2021 |
Year | 2021 |
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in |
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 30th March, 2021. |
The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5 , 31A (inserted by section 10 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020 (No. 1 of 2020)) (in so far as it relates to regulations 3 and 5) and 38G (inserted by section 7 of the Health (Amendment) Act 2021 (No. 1 of 2021)) of the Health Act 1947 (No. 28 of 1947) and, in relation to regulations 3 and 5 – |
(a) having regard to the immediate, exceptional and manifest risk posed to human life and public health by the spread of Covid-19 and to the matters specified in subsection (2) of section 31A, and |
(b) having consulted with the Minister for Finance, Minister for Transport, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the Minister for Justice. |
hereby makes the following regulations: |
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Act 1947 (Exempted Traveller) (Covid-19) Regulations 2021. |
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 26th day of March 2021. |
2. In these Regulations – |
“Act of 1947” means the Health Act 1947 (No. 28 of 1947); |
“relevant person” has the meaning assigned to it by Regulation 3; |
“relevant test result” means, in relation to a transit passenger, a record or evidence, in written or electronic form, confirming that – |
(a) the person has been subject to a RT-PCR test, |
(b) such test was administered to the person no more than 72 hours before he or she arrives in the State, and |
(c) Covid-19, or the virus SARS-CoV-2, was not detected in the person at the time of taking the test; |
“RT-PCR test” means a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test, the purpose of which is to detect the presence of Covid-19, or the virus SARS-CoV-2, in the person to whom it is administered; |
“transit passenger” means a person prescribed under Regulation 4. |
3. The following persons (each of whom, in these Regulations, is referred to as a “relevant person”) are specified as relevant persons for the purposes of these Regulations: |
(a) authorised officers; |
(b) medical officers of health; |
(c) officers of the Minister for Justice, being immigration officers appointed by that Minister under section 3 of the Immigration Act 2004 (No. 1 of 2004); |
(d) officers of customs (within the meaning of the Customs Act 2015 (No. 18 of 2015)); |
(e) any officer, employee or agent of... |
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