Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) (England) Regulations 2020

Changes to legislation:

There are currently no known outstanding effects for The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) (England) Regulations 2020, Section 3.

Changes to Legislation

Revised legislation carried on this site may not be fully up to date. At the current time any known changes or effects made by subsequent legislation have been applied to the text of the legislation you are viewing by the editorial team. Please see ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ for details regarding the timescales for which new effects are identified and recorded on this site.

Applicable tests3.

(1)

An applicable test is a test for the detection of coronavirus which is—

F1(a)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)

provided F2, by or on behalf of a testing service provider, in the course of a business;

(c)

not a test provided or administered under the National Health Service Act 2006 M1;

(d)

not a test provided by a person (P) solely to—

(i)

P’s employees;

(ii)

persons contracted to provide services to P; or

(iii)

both of the above; and

F3(da)

not carried out using a device for self-testing.

F4(e)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2)

In this regulation—

(a)

“coronavirus” means severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2);

F5(aa)

“device for self-testing” has the same meaning as in regulation 32(1) of the Medical Devices Regulations 2002.

F6(b)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .