Coronavirus Act 2020

Powers exercisable at a screening and assessment place: public health officers

55 (1) If a public health officer considers it appropriate for the purposes of screening or assessing the person, the officer may—

(a) direct the person referred to in paragraph 52 to go immediately to another place which is specified in the direction and is suitable for those purposes,

(b) remove the person to a place suitable for those purposes, or

(c) request a constable to remove the person to a place suitable for those purposes (and the constable may then do so).

(2) Where a public health officer exercises the powers conferred by this paragraph, the officer must inform that person—

(a) of the reason for directing or removing them, and

(b) that it is an offence—

(i) in a case where a person is directed, to fail without reasonable excuse to comply with the direction, or

(ii) in a case where a person is removed (by the officer or by a constable), to abscond.