C27

Prospective affecting provision: section inserted by Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Act 2021 (37/2021), s. 3, not commenced as of date of revision.

F97[38Y. (1) A travel organiser, in relation to a person whose arrival in the State it organises, effects or facilitates shall—

(a) take reasonable steps to inform the person, where he or she is an applicable traveller, of his or her obligation to pre-book a designated facility,

(b) take reasonable steps to check whether or not the person, where he or she is an applicable traveller, has pre-booked a designated facility, and

(c) subject to subsection (2), refuse to organise, effect or facilitate the travel of the person to the State where the person has not, to the satisfaction of the travel organiser, demonstrated that he or she has pre-booked such a facility.

(2) Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) shall not apply in relation to a person whose arrival in the State is organised, effected or facilitated by a travel organiser where the person referred to in that paragraph declares to the travel organiser, or an officer, employee or agent of the travel organiser, that he or she is an exempted traveller.

(3) In this section, "travel organiser" means a person who—

(a) by providing a person with access to or use of a vehicle, organises, effects or facilitates the arrival of an applicable traveller in the State, and

(b) is—

(i) a body corporate, or

(ii) in relation to a person who organises, effects or facilitates the arrival of the person in the State by providing access to or use of a vehicle on a private and exclusive basis, the owner of such vehicle.]