The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020 (revoked)

[F1 Day 8 tests: private provider requirements E+W

9.— (1) For the purposes of paragraph 8(1)(b)(iii), a private provider complies with this paragraph where—

(a) they comply with the requirements of paragraph 3(1)(a) and (e) to (h) of Schedule 2A as if any reference in those provisions to an appropriate test were a reference to a day 8 test,

(b) they have made a declaration to the Department of Health and Social Care that they meet the minimum standards for private sector-provided testing at https://support-covid-19-testing.dhsc.gov.uk/InternationalTesting,

(c) in relation to a test which requires laboratory processing—

(i) the person responsible for the taking of samples meets the relevant requirements for accreditation to ISO standard 15189 or ISO/IEC standard 17025 in respect of the taking of samples, and

(ii) the laboratory used by the test provider for the processing of samples meets the relevant requirements for accreditation to ISO standard 15189 or ISO/IEC standard 17025 in respect of the processing of samples,

(d) in relation to a point of care test, they meet the relevant requirements for accreditation to ISO Standard 15189 and ISO standard 22870,

(e) they receive the information required by paragraph 10(3) or (4) (as appropriate), and they administer or provide the test to P no earlier than the end of the seventh day after the day on which P arrived in England,

(f) if they arrange with another person (“X”) for X to carry out any element of the single end-to-end testing service on their behalf, the test provider ensures that X complies with the following so far as relevant to the carrying out of that element—

(i) paragraph 3(1)(e) to (h) of Schedule 2A as applied by sub-paragraph (1)(a);

(ii) sub-paragraph (1)(b) to (e);

(iii) paragraph 11(2), (3) and (4).

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(f), “single end-to-end testing service” has the meaning given in paragraph 3(2)(c) of Schedule 2A.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(c) and (d), a person or laboratory (as the case may be) meets the relevant requirements for accreditation to a standard where the person who is the operator of the laboratory complies with the requirements of regulation 6 of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) (England) Regulations 2020 as if—

(a) a reference to an applicable test were a reference to a day 8 test;

(b) a reference to a test provider were a reference to a private provider.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2C inserted (15.2.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/150), regs. 1(1), 19 (with reg. 23)