Pursuant to clause 27A of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order (No 2) 2020 (“Order”), I, Robyn Shearer, Acting Director-General of Health, being satisfied that:

• the exemption is necessary or desirable in order to promote the purposes of the Act or the purposes of this order; and
• the extent of the exemption is not broader than is reasonably necessary to address the matters giving rise to the exemption;

exempt all persons arriving to New Zealand from the countries listed in Schedules 1 and 2 of this notice from the obligation in clause 8(2B)(a)(i) of the Order to provide evidence of a negative COVID-19 test (RT-PCR test) taken no more than 48 hours before their journey to New Zealand began.

For persons arriving from a jurisdiction specified in Schedule 1 of this notice, the exemption is subject to the following conditions:

• the person must have evidence of a negative COVID-19 test administered no more than 24 hours before their journey to New Zealand began. The COVID-19 test that is permitted for this purpose may be a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) or a Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) test; and
• the person must have evidence that the RAT or LAMP test was supervised by a health professional, (including a pharmacist); and
• the person must produce evidence of the negative result when requested by 1 or more of the following:
  • a health protection officer:
  • staff member or representative of the relevant air carrier:
  • an immigration officer:
  • an enforcement officer.

For persons arriving from a jurisdiction specified in Schedule 2, the exemption is not subject to further conditions.

Pursuant to clause 27A of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order (No 2) 2020 (“Order”), I, Robyn Shearer, Acting Director-General of Health, revoke the following exemptions previously made under that clause:

• Exemption of Persons From Clause 8(2B) of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order (No 2) 2020 (New Zealand Gazette, 19 August 2021, Notice No. 2021-go3543)
• Exemption of Persons From Pre-departure Testing Requirements Before Arriving in New Zealand by Air (New Zealand Gazette, 2 November 2021, Notice No. 2021-go4737)

This exemption notice comes into force at 11.59pm on 16 January 2022.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of January 2022.

ROBYN SHEARER, Acting Director-General of Health.

Schedule 1: Jurisdictions of Origin

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Armenia

Australia

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Brunei Darussalam

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cabo Verde

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

Central African Republic (the)

Chad

Chile

China

Colombia

Comoros

Congo

Costa Rica

Côte d’Ivoire

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (the)

Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

France

Gabon

Gambia (the)

Grenada

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Haiti

Honduras

Hong Kong

Hungary

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Jamaica

Kazakhstan

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Luxembourg

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Mauritania

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Myanmar

Nepal

Nicaragua

Niger

North Macedonia

Oman

Pakistan

Peru

Portugal

Qatar

Republic of Moldova

San Marino

Sao Tome and Principe

Sierra Leone

Slovenia

Somalia

Spain

Sri Lanka

St Kitts and Nevis

St Vincent and the Grenadines

Sudan

Suriname

Syria

Tajikistan

Togo

Tunisia

Uzbekistan

Wallis and Futuna

Yemen

Zambia

Schedule 2: Jurisdictions of Origin

Afghanistan

American Samoa

Antarctica

Belize

Cook Islands

Federated States of Micronesia

Fiji

Kiribati

Nauru

New Caledonia

Niue

Palau

Republic of the Marshall Islands

Samoa

Solomon Islands

Tokelau

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

Vanuatu