{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-protection-coronavirus-testing-requirements-and-standards-england-regulations-2020/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-protection-coronavirus-testing-requirements-and-standards-england-regulations-2020/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2020/9780348215878",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) (England) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-protection-coronavirus-testing-requirements-and-standards-england-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Applicable tests",
  "text": "(1) An applicable test is a test for the detection of coronavirus which is—\n(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);\n(b) provided in the course of a business;\n(c) not a test provided or administered under the National Health Service Act 2006;\n(d) not a test provided by a person (P) solely to—\n(i) P’s employees;\n(ii) persons contracted to provide services to P; or\n(iii) both of the above; and\n(e) administered on or after 1st January 2021.\n(2) In this regulation—\n(a) “coronavirus” means severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2);\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780348215878/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:48:09.090977+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}