The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022

Amendment of the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010

36.—(1) The Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 4(1)(b) (duty on laboratories to notify UKHSA of causative agents), omit “, other than a test in relation to which regulation 4B (duty to report the results of LFD tests undertaken by eligible travellers) applies,”.

(3) In regulation 4ZA (duty to notify UKHSA of the results of mandatory tests)—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a), omit “or a day 8 test”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (c), omit “or 9(1)(h)”;

(b) in paragraph (3), omit “or 9(1)(h)”.

(4) In regulation 4ZB(7) (duty to notify UKHSA of the results of genomic sequencing of mandatory test samples), in the definition of “sequencing laboratory”, omit “or 9(1)(h)”.

(5) In regulation 4A(1) (duty on test providers to notify UKHSA of causative agents), omit “, other than a test in relation to which regulation 4B (duty to report the results of LFD tests undertaken by eligible travellers) applies,”.

(6) Omit regulation 4B (duty to notify UKHSA of LFD test results).

(7) In regulation 7(1)(a) (electronic communications), for “4ZB, 4A(3) and 4B(2)” substitute “4ZB and 4A(3)”.

(1)

S.I. 2010/659, which has been amended by S.I. 2010/954, 2013/235, 2018/387, 2020/237, 674, 1175, 2021/150, 223, 442, 582, 914, 923, 966, 974 and 2022/11.