COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 16) 2021: revoked, at 11.59 pm on 27 February 2022, pursuant to clause 61(1)(b) of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order 2021 (SL 2021/427).

Note

The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.

This notice is administered by the Ministry of Health.

Pursuant to clause 26 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order (No 2) 2020, the Minister for COVID-19 Response gives the following notice after complying with that clause.

1	Title
2	Commencement
3	Principal notice
4	Clause 3 amended (Interpretation)
5	Clause 8 amended (Person must meet QFT prerequisites on arrival)
6	Clauses 10 to 11 and cross-headings revoked
	Explanatory note
	Gazette Information
	Notes

Notice

1 Title

This notice is the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 16) 2021.

2 Commencement

This notice comes into force at 11.59 pm on 11 August 2021.

3 Principal notice

This notice amends the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Notice 2021.

4 Clause 3 amended (Interpretation)

In clause 3(1), revoke the definitions of Norfolk Island and specified 14-day period.

5 Clause 8 amended (Person must meet QFT prerequisites on arrival)

Replace clause 8(2) with:

(2)

The condition is that, on the person’s arrival in New Zealand, they meet all of the applicable QFT prerequisites.

6 Clauses 10 to 11 and cross-headings revoked

Revoke clauses 10 to 11 and the cross-headings above clauses 10, 10C, and 11.

Dated at Wellington this 9th day of August 2021.

Hon Chris Hipkins,
Minister for COVID-19 Response.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This notice amends the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Notice 2021 and comes into force at 11.59 pm on 11 August 2021.

The effect of the amendments is to end all possibility of quarantine-free travel flights from Australia to New Zealand.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.

Date of notification in Gazette: 9 August 2021.

Notes

1 General

This is a consolidation of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 16) 2021 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.

2 Legal status

A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.

Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.

3 Editorial and format changes

The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.

4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation

COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order 2021 (SL 2021/427): clause 61(1)(b)

COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 16) 2021