text: **Persons not required to comply with regulation 4**
  
  **3.**—(1) The persons referred to in regulation 4(6)(c) (and not required to comply with that 
  
  regulation) are— 
  
  (a) a person (“P”) described in— 
  
  (i) paragraph 16(1)(b) of Schedule 4 where, prior to P’s departure to the United 
  Kingdom, the relevant Department has certified that they meet this description and 
  are not required to comply with regulation 4, or 
  
  (ii) paragraph 17 of Schedule 4 where, prior to P’s departure to the United Kingdom, the 
  relevant Department has also certified that they are not required to comply with 
  regulation 4; 
  
  (b) a Crown servant or government contractor (“C”) who is required to undertake essential 
  policing or essential government work in the United Kingdom or is returning from 
  conducting such work outside the United Kingdom where, prior to C’s departure to the 
  United Kingdom, the relevant Department has certified that they meet this description and 
  are not required to comply with regulation 4; 
  
  (c) a representative (“R”) of a foreign country or territory, or of the government of a British 
  overseas territory, travelling to the United Kingdom to conduct official business with the 
  United Kingdom where, prior to R’s departure to the United Kingdom— 
  (i) the relevant head of the mission, consular post, or office representing a foreign 
  territory in the United Kingdom, or a Governor of a British overseas territory (as the 
  case may be), or a person acting on their authority, confirms in writing to the Foreign 
  Commonwealth and Development Office that R is required to undertake work which 
  is essential to the foreign country represented by the mission or consular post, the 
  foreign territory represented by the office or the British overseas territory, and 
  
  (ii) the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office has then confirmed in writing 
  
  to the person giving the notification in sub-paragraph (i) that— 
  (aa) 
  (bb) R is travelling to the United Kingdom to conduct official business with the 
  
  it has received that confirmation, and 
  
  United Kingdom and is not required to comply with regulation 4; 
  
  (d) a person described in paragraph 31 of Schedule 4 (worker with specialist technical skills). 
  
  (2) In sub-paragraph (1)— 
  
  (a) “consular post” has the meaning given in paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 4; 
  (b) “Crown servant”, “essential government work”, “essential policing” and “government 
  contractor” have the meaning given in paragraph 16(2) of Schedule 4. 