Health Act 1947 (Exempted Traveller) (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2021
Jurisdiction | Ireland |
Citation | IR SI 216/2021 |
Year | 2021 |
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in |
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 11th May, 2021. |
I, STEPHEN DONNELLY, Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on me 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)) 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 – |
(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 and the Minister for Transport, |
hereby make the following regulations: |
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Act 1947 (Exempted Traveller) (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2021. |
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 8th day of May 2021. |
2. The Health Act 1947 (Exempted Traveller) (Covid-19) Regulations 2021 ( S.I. No. 134 of 2021 ) are amended by the insertion of the following Regulations after Regulation 12: |
“13. (1) For the purposes of paragraph (j) of the definition of ‘exempted traveller’ in section 38B(25) of the Act of 1947, a person is prescribed as an exempted traveller where – |
(a) the person – |
(i) is returning to the State having travelled to a state for an unavoidable, imperative and time-sensitive medical reason, |
(ii) is in possession of a medical certificate from a registered medical practitioner or from a person holding an equivalent qualification outside the State to the effect that he or she had an unavoidable, imperative and time-sensitive reason for so travelling, and |
(iii) complies with any request of a relevant person or a member of the Garda Síochána under Regulation 14, |
(b) the person is a carer in respect of a person referred to in subparagraph (a), or |
(c) the person is a dependant person accompanying a person referred to in subparagraph (a) or a carer. |
(2) In this Regulation, ‘carer’ means a person (other than a dependant person) who is responsible for the care of a person referred to in paragraph (1)(a) and who returns to the State with the person concerned. |
14. A relevant person or a member of the Garda Síochána may request a person referred to in Regulation 13(1)(a)... |
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