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Version as at 27 February 2022 COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 15) 2021 (LI 2021/198) COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amend‐ ment Notice (No 15) 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).
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.
Contents Title Commencement Principal notice Clause 3 amended (Interpretation) Clause 10 replaced (Person must not have been in affected Australian State at or after specified time) 10 Clause 11 and cross-heading replaced Person must not have been in Australia Exemptions for relevant workers on relocating flights from Australia 11 Exemptions for relevant workers on relocating flights from Australia Schedule 1 amended Schedule New Part 13 inserted into Schedule 1 Page 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 5 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.

1 cl 1 COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 15) 2021 Version as at 27 February 2022 Title Notice This notice is the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Condi‐ tions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 15) 2021.
Commencement This notice comes into force at 11.59 pm on 30 July 2021.

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

Clause 3 amended (Interpretation) In clause 3(1), revoke the definitions of— (a) affected Australian State; and (b) Australian State.
Clause 10 replaced (Person must not have been in affected Australian State at or after specified time) Replace clause 10 with: 10 Person must not have been in Australia (1) An exemption under clause 6(1) is subject to the condition set out in this clause.

(2) The condition is that the person has not been in Australia during the specified 14-day period.
(3) This condition does not apply to an aircrew member if the aircrew member— (a) (b) (c) (d) boarded the aircraft in the Cook Islands or Niue; and arrived in the Cook Islands or Niue on an aircraft from New Zealand having originally departed from Australia; and had a negative result from a test for COVID-19 administered no earlier than 72 hours after their arrival in New Zealand from Australia; and had not, before receiving the negative result, been on an aircraft under‐ taking a flight from the Cook Islands or Niue to New Zealand (or vice versa).
6 Clause 11 and cross-heading replaced Replace clause 11 and the cross-heading above clause 11 with: 2 Version as at 27 February 2022 COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 15) 2021 cl 6 Exemptions for relevant workers on relocating flights from Australia 11 Exemptions for relevant workers on relocating flights from Australia (1) A relevant worker is exempt from clause 8(2A) and (3) of the Air Border Order if— (a) they arrive in New Zealand on an aircraft undertaking a flight from Aus‐ tralia to New Zealand for the purpose of relocating the aircraft or rele‐ vant workers on board (whether or not the aircraft also carries freight) to New Zealand; and (2) (3) (b) the owner or charterer of the aircraft undertaking the flight is a relevant carrier.
It is a condition of the exemption from clause 8(3) of the Air Border Order that, before the relevant worker boarded the aircraft, a statement was made by, or on behalf of, the relevant worker that, no more than 7 days immediately before the scheduled departure of the flight and at the direction of their employer, the rele‐ vant worker had mouth swabs or nose swabs (or both) taken for an RT-PCR test.
The condition does not apply to a relevant worker who, when in Australia dur‐ ing the period starting 7 days immediately before the scheduled departure of the aircraft and ending on that scheduled departure, was only— (a) on an aircraft or on the airside of an airport in Australia at which the air‐ craft landed; or (b) on Norfolk Island.
(4) If the relevant worker is an aircrew member, it is also a condition that before they boarded the aircraft they must have notified, or on their arrival in New Zealand they must notify, the Ministry of Health— (a) that they will self-isolate during the period that— (i) commences as soon as practicable after they arrive in New Zea‐ land; and (ii) ends when they leave their place of self-isolation; and (b) (c) of the address of the residence or other accommodation that they intend to be their place of self-isolation; and of an email address and telephone number at which they may be contac‐ ted.
(5) In this clause,— employer, in relation to a relevant worker, means an air carrier for which the relevant worker works (whether or not as an employee) relevant carrier means— (a) Air New Zealand Limited; or 3 cl 7 COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 15) 2021 Version as at 27 February 2022 (b) Qantas Airways Limited; or (c) Jetstar Airways Proprietary Limited; or (d) Air Chathams Limited relevant worker means— (a) (b) an aircrew member who is not a specified aircrew member; or any person, other than an aircrew member, who is on the aircraft on which they arrive in New Zealand at the direction of a relevant carrier for which they work.
7 Schedule 1 amended In Schedule 1,— (a) insert the Part set out in the Schedule of this notice as the last Part; and (b) make all necessary consequential amendments.
4 Version as at 27 February 2022 COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 15) 2021 Explanatory note Schedule New Part 13 inserted into Schedule 1 cl 7 Part 13 Provision relating to COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 15) 2021 19 (1) QFT flights departing before commencement of Amendment Notice Former clauses 10 and 11 continue to apply in relation to a QFT flight that departed for New Zealand before the commencement of the Amendment Notice.
(2) In this clause,— Amendment Notice means the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemp‐ tions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 15) 2021 former clauses 10 and 11 means the clauses of this notice as in force immedi‐ ately before the commencement of the Amendment Notice.

Dated at Wellington this 30th day of July 2021.

Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall, Acting 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 Condi‐ tions for Quarantine-free Travel) Notice 2021.

It comes into force at 11.59 pm on 30 July 2021.
This notice— • • ends all quarantine-free travel from Australia and for all persons who have been in Australia during the 14-day period immediately preceding the depar‐ ture of their flight for New Zealand; and continues, for aircrew members and others undertaking relocating flights from Australia to New Zealand, the exemption from the requirement in the 5 Explanatory note COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 15) 2021 Version as at 27 February 2022 COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order (No 2) 2020 for isola‐ tion or quarantine after arrival if certain conditions are satisfied.
Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.

Date of notification in Gazette: 30 July 2021.


6 Version as at 27 February 2022 COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 15) 2021 Notes Notes 1 General This is a consolidation of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Exemptions and Conditions for Quarantine-free Travel) Amendment Notice (No 15) 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 presump‐ tion applies unless the contrary is shown.

Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, pub‐ lished as an electronic version, is an official version.

A printed version of legis‐ lation 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 con‐ solidations 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) Wellington, New Zealand: Published under the authority of the New Zealand Government—2022 7