This order amends the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order (No 2) 2020 (the principal order) and comes into force at 11.59 pm on 28 November 2021.

The amendments affect Schedule 3 of the principal order, which lists very high risk countries. Clause 8A of the principal order provides that a person must not arrive in New Zealand by air if they have been in a very high risk country in the preceding 14-day period.

The amendments—

• designate Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, and Zimbabwe as very high risk countries:

• remove Brazil, Fiji, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan from the list of very high risk countries.

Clauses 18F and 18G of the principal order (which provide exemptions from clause 8A in relation to arrivals from Fiji) are revoked as a consequence of the removal of Fiji from the list of very high risk countries.

This order must be approved by a resolution of the House of Representatives before the end of the relevant period described in section 16(2) of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020. If that does not happen, the order is revoked at the end of that period.