Health Act 1947 (Section 31A – Temporary Requirements) (Covid-19 Passenger Locator Form) Regulations 2020

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 181/2020
• Year: 2020

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 26th May, 2020.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5 and 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)) of the Health Act 1947 (No. 28 of 1947) and -

(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 Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Minister for Justice and Equality, the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation and the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport,

hereby makes the following regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Act 1947 (Section 31A – Temporary Requirements) (Covid-19 Passenger Locator Form) Regulations 2020.

(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 28th day of May 2020.

Operation of Regulations

2. These Regulations shall remain in operation until the 18th day of June 2020.

Definitions

3. In these Regulations -

“airport” means any of the following airports:

(a) Cork Airport;

(b) Donegal Airport;

(c) Dublin Airport;

(d) Ireland West Airport;

(e) Kerry Airport;

(f) Shannon Airport;

(g) Waterford Airport;

“contact details”, in relation to an international passenger, means his or her telephone number and email address;

“Covid-19 Passenger Locator Form” means the form set out in the Schedule;

“international passenger” means a person, other than a child, who arrives in the State at a port or airport from a place outside the State, but does not include:

(a) a person who arrives in the State from Northern Ireland;

(b) a person who arrives at the port or airport for the purposes of passing through that port or airport in order to travel to another state, and who does not leave the port or airport;

(c) an international transport worker who arrives in the State in the course of performing his or her duties;

(d) an aircraft pilot, other aircrew, maritime master or maritime crew who arrives in the State in the course of performing his or her duties;

(e) a person to whom the privileges and immunities conferred by -

(i) the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations done at Vienna on the 18th day of April 1961, or

(ii) the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations done at Vienna on the 24th day of April 1963,

apply in the State;

(f) a person to whom the privileges and immunities conferred by an international agreement or arrangement apply in the State, pursuant to the Diplomatic Relations and Immunities Acts 1967 to 2006 or any other enactment;

“international transport worker” means a person -

(a) who holds a valid annex 3 certificate in accordance with the Communication from the Commission on the implementation of the Green Lanes under the Guidelines for border management measures to protect health and ensure the availability of goods and essential services1 , or

(b) who is a driver of a heavy goods vehicle;

“place of residence”, in relation to an international passenger, means the place, or places, in the State at which he or she intends to reside during the relevant period;

“port” means any of the following ports:

(a) Cobh in the Port of Cork;

(b) Dublin Port;

(c) Killybegs Harbour;

(d) Port of Cork;

(e) Port of Galway;

(f) Port of Waterford;

(g) Rosslare EuroPort;

“relevant period”, in relation to an international passenger, means -

(a) the period of 14 days from the date on which he or she arrives in the State, or

(b) where the duration of his or her stay in the State is less than 14 days, the period of his or her stay;

“relevant person” has the meaning assigned to it by Regulation 4;

“responsible adult” means, in relation to a child who arrives in the State at a port or airport from a place outside the State, an international passenger who is travelling with the child and who is responsible, alone or jointly with another person, for that child for all or part of the journey by which the child arrives in the State.

Relevant persons

4. 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) officers of the Minister for Justice and Equality, being immigration officers appointed by that Minister under section 3 of the Immigration Act 2004 (No. 1 of 2004);

(b) persons appointed by the Health Service Executive under the programme commonly known as the Covid-19 Contact Management Programme.

Covid-19 Passenger Locator Form

5. (1) An international passenger shall -

(a) on or before his or her arrival in the State, complete a Covid-19 Passenger Locator Form -

(i) in respect of himself or herself, and

(ii) subject to paragraph (2), in respect of any child in relation to whom the international passenger is a responsible adult,

(b) on arrival in the State, present himself or herself to a relevant person, and

(c) give to the relevant person the Covid-19 Passenger Locator Form completed in accordance with paragraph (a).

(2) Where the...