Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Wales) Regulations 2020
Screening requirements6.
(1)
For the purposes of these Regulations, the screening requirements, in relation to a person (“P”) are requirements to the effect that P must─
(a)
answer questions about P’s health or other relevant circumstances (including travel history and information about other individuals with whom P may have had contact),
(b)
produce any documents which may assist a registered public health consultant or public health officer in assessing P’s health,
(c)
at such time as a registered public health consultant may specify, allow a public health officer, or a medical officer, to take a biological sample of P, including a sample of P’s respiratory secretions or blood, by appropriate means including by swabbing P’s nasopharyngeal cavity, or provide such a sample, and
(d)
provide sufficient information to enable P to be contacted immediately by a public health officer during such period as a registered public health consultant may specify, where the registered public health consultant considers that such provision of information is necessary in order to reduce or remove the risk of P infecting or contaminating others.
(2)
Where P is—
(a)
a child, and
(b)
accompanied by a responsible adult,
paragraph (3) applies.
(3)
The responsible adult must─
(a)
secure that P answers questions in accordance with paragraph (1)(a),
(b)
answer the questions if P is unable to do so or cannot reliably do so,
(c)
produce any documents, required under paragraph (1)(b), on P’s behalf,
(d)
allow a public health officer, or a medical officer, to take a biological sample of P, including a sample of P’s respiratory secretions or blood, by appropriate means including by swabbing P’s nasopharyngeal cavity, or provide such a sample, and
(e)
provide information where required by a public health officer under paragraph (1)(d).