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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-coronavirus-testing-requirements-and-standards-england-regulations-2020/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-coronavirus-testing-requirements-and-standards-england-regulations-2020/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Offence and penalties",
  "text": "(1) A testing service provider or an operator of a diagnostic laboratory commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, they contravene a requirement imposed under regulation 4 or 5 ....\n(2) An offence under this regulation is punishable on summary conviction by a fine.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1) substituted (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), 8(2)(a) (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1) substituted (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), 8(2)(b) (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1) 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), 8(2)(c) (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}