Pursuant to clause 105 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Protection Framework) Order 2021 (“Order”), the Director-General of Health may exempt a class of persons, businesses, services, or goods (or any person, business, service, or goods) from the application of any provision of the Order or from the requirement to comply with any provision of the Order.

Being satisfied that the exemption is necessary or desirable to promote the purposes of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 or the purposes of the Order, and the extent of the exemption is not broader than is reasonably necessary, I grant an exemption for food and drink businesses airside in Auckland International Airport. The exemption is to clause 25 and clause 27 of the Order, in respect only of crew and passengers arriving on LATAM Airlines flights LA800 and LA801 who are transiting through Auckland, from the requirement to comply with the COVID-19 vaccination certificate (“CVC”) rules and the requirement to have systems and processes to check a person carries CVC and to verify CVC compliance.

I also grant an exemption for crew and passengers arriving on LATAM Airlines flights LA800 and LA801 who are transiting through Auckland, from clause 28 (Person who is not CVC compliant must not enter regulated premises that are CVC-only), clause 29 (Person must produce CVC when requested at regulated premises that are CVC-only) and clause 30 (Person must produce valid CVC) of the Order.

Conditions

The exemption is subject to the following conditions:

1. Food and drink businesses and passengers and crew to whom this exemption applies must comply with all other requirements under the Order, such as physical distancing and face-covering requirements.

The exemption will expire at 11.59pm on 4 April 2022.

Dated this 31st day of March 2022.

Dr ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD, Director-General of Health.