# The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) (England) Regulations 2020, Regulation 3: Applicable tests


(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;
(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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780348215878/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-health-protection-coronavirus-testing-requirements-and-standards-england-regulations-2020/regulation-3
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.