Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 1C inserted (15.2.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/154), regs. 1(2), 4 (with reg. 21)
2B.—(1) Before providing a test, a private test provider must have been accredited by UKAS to the relevant ISO standard.
(2) If the private test provider arranges with another person (“X”) for X to carry out any element of the testing service on their behalf, the private test provider must—
(a)ensure that X complies with any provision of this paragraph that is relevant to the carrying out of that element, and
(b)subject to sub-paragraph (3), cease to provide tests under arrangement with X if X fails to comply with any such provision.
(3) Sub-paragraph (2)(b) does not apply to a test that was administered before the date that X failed to comply with this paragraph.
(4) In this paragraph—
“the relevant ISO standard” (“y safon ISO berthnasol”) means—
in the case of a test which requires laboratory processing, ISO standard 15189 or ISO/IEC standard 17025, and
in the case of a point of care test, ISO standard 15189 and ISO standard 22870, and for this purpose “point of care test” means a test processed outside a laboratory environment;
“UKAS” (“UKAS”) means the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, a company limited by guarantee and incorporated in England and Wales under number 3076190.]]
Textual Amendments