The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Public Health Information) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 26) Regulations 2020 E+W

5.—(1) The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 26) Regulations 2020 M1 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (amendment of the International Travel Regulations), in paragraph (7), in the new Schedule 2A to be inserted—

(a) in paragraph 2(1)(d), for “NHS Act 2006, the NHS (Wales) Act 2006” substitute “ National Health Service Act 2006 M2 , the National Health Services (Wales) Act 2006 M3 ”;

(b) in paragraph 2(2)(d)(iii) and paragraph 3(1)(c)(i) and (ii), for “ISO standard 17025” substitute “ ISO/IEC standard 17025 M4 ”;

(c) in paragraph 3(1)(d), before “ISO standard 22870” insert “ ISO standard 15189 M5 and ”;

(d) in paragraph 5(3), in ‘Form B: positive test result’ for “14” substitute “ 10 ”.

(3) Omit regulation 3 (amendment of the Passenger Information Regulations).

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 5 in force at 14.12.2020, see reg. 1(3)

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 2020/1337, due to come into force on 15th December 2020.

M2 2006 c.41.

M3 2006 c.42.

M4 ISO standards are published in Geneva by the International Organisation for Standardisation, and are available on their website (www.iso.org) or at ISO Central Secretariat, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), 1 rue de Varembé, Case postale 56, CH-1211, Geneva 20, Switzerland. ISO/IEC 17025 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories was published in November 2017.

M5 ISO 15189 Medical Laboratories requirements for quality and competence was published in November 2012.