Pursuant to clause 27A of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order (No 2) 2020 (“Order”), I, Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health, declare that the classes of persons listed in this notice, arriving in New Zealand by air, are exempt from the requirements for pre-departure COVID-19 testing or examination by a medical practitioner set out in clause 8(2B) of the Order.

Persons whose journey by air begins or is taken to begin in the following countries or other places:

• Antarctica
• the Cook Islands
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands
• Nauru
• New Caledonia
• Niue
• Palau
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tokelau
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

The exemption takes effect at 11.59pm on 4 September 2021. At the time this exemption takes effect, the exemption made on 16 April 2020 by me entitled Exemption of Persons From Pre-departure Requirements Before Arriving in New Zealand by Air, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on 16 April 2021 (New Zealand Gazette, 16 April 2021, Notice No. 2021-go1406) is revoked.

Subject to the terms of this exemption, all other provisions of the Order continue to apply until this exemption is revoked.

Dated at Wellington this day of September 2021.

Dr ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD, Te Tumu Whakarae mō te Hauora | Director-General of Health.