1. Pursuant to clause 31A of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Maritime Border) Order (No 2) 2020 (“Order”), I, Hon Chris Hipkins, Minister for COVID-19 Response, having taken into account the advice of the Director-General of Health (“Director-General”), declare that any crew member (within the meaning of the Order) who arrives in NZ on an aircraft undertaking a QFT flight (within the meaning of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order (No 2) 2020) is exempt from clauses 24(2), 27 and 28 (“relevant provisions”) of the Order.

This exemption is subject to the condition that, once they have boarded the ship, the crew member must comply with all requirements in the Order applying in relation to persons who arrive in New Zealand on board a ship as referred to in clause 17(1), as if they were such a person.

2. Pursuant to clause 31A of the Order, having taken into account the advice of the Director-General, I further declare that:

1. any person who arrives in New Zealand on board a ship and to whom clause 17(1) applies is exempt from the application of clause 17(3)(c) if the new person concerned is a crew member who is exempted by this instrument from the relevant provisions of the Order; and
2. any crew member who is exempted by this instrument from the relevant provisions of the Order is exempt from the application of clause 17(3)(c) if the new person concerned is also a crew member who is exempted by this instrument from the relevant provisions of the Order.

The exemption will begin at 11.59pm on 23 April 2021.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of April 2021.

Hon CHRIS HIPKINS, Minister for COVID-19 Response.