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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) (England) Regulations 2020 No. 1549
3.—(1) An applicable test is a test for the detection of coronavirus which is—
(a)provided in a single end-to-end testing service (whether or not the provider arranges with another person (“X”) for X to provide one or more elements of the service on their behalf);
(b)provided in the course of a business;
(c)not a test provided or administered under the National Health Service Act 2006(1);
(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
(e)administered on or after 1st January 2021.
(2) In this regulation—
(a)“coronavirus” means severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2);
(b)“single end-to-end testing service” means a service which comprises arranging to provide the test to the person to be tested, collecting and processing the sample to be tested, and providing the test result to that person.
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