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).