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 11.59pm on 6 January 2022 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 within a 48 hour period of their arrival to New Zealand.

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 taken 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 one 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.

This exemption expires at 11.59pm on 16 January 2022.

Dated this 6th 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