Health Act 1947 (Exempted Traveller) (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations 2021

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 183/2021
• Year: 2021

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 20th April, 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 regulation 2(c) and (e)) 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 regulation 2(c) and (e) -

(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 Justice, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth,

hereby make the following regulations:

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Act 1947 (Exempted Traveller) (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021.

(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 17th day of April 2021.

2. The Health Act 1947 (Exempted Traveller) (Covid-19) Regulations 2021 ( S.I. No. 134 of 2021 ) are amended -

(a) by the insertion, in Regulation 2, of the following definitions:

“ ‘certification of vaccination’ means a record or evidence in written or electronic form in the Irish language or the English language, or, where in a language other than the Irish or English language, an official translation into the Irish or English language, that contains the following information:

(a) confirmation that the person to whom the certification refers is a vaccinated person;

(b) the date or dates on which the person was vaccinated;

(c) the body in the state concerned implementing the vaccination programme (howsoever described) on behalf of the state that administered or caused to be administered the vaccination to the person concerned;

‘dependant person’ has the same meaning as it has in section 38B(25) of the Act of 1947;

‘vaccinated person’ means -

(a) a person to whom the medicinal product for active immunisation to prevent Covid-19 known as ‘COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna CX-024414’ has been administered such that the second dose of the medicinal product concerned has been administered to the person not less than 14 days before his or her arrival in the State,

(b) a person to whom the medicinal product for active immunisation to prevent Covid-19 known as ‘Vaxzevria (previously COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca) ChAdOx1-SARS-COV-2’ has been...