{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-coronavirus-testing-requirements-and-standards-england-regulations-2020/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-coronavirus-testing-requirements-and-standards-england-regulations-2020/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1549",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) (England) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-coronavirus-testing-requirements-and-standards-england-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n...\n“applicable test” means a test to which regulation 3 applies;\n“diagnostic laboratory” means an institution (or facility within an institution) which is equipped with apparatus and reagents for the performance of diagnostic tests for human infections;\n“operator of a diagnostic laboratory” means the corporate body that operates the diagnostic laboratory, or if there is no such body, the director of the diagnostic laboratory;\n“point of care test” means a diagnostic test which is not carried out in a diagnostic laboratory;\n“sample collection” means the taking of, or assisting with or the supervision of the taking of, a physical sample from a person who is the subject of a test;\n“testing service provider” means a person who carries out a sample collection or a point of care test, or a diagnostic laboratory.\n...\n...",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (1.1.2024) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1340), regs. 1(1), 3(2) (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.1.2024) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1340), regs. 1(1), 3(3) (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 17.12.2020, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1549/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:20:08.085387+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."
}