Regulation 5 Duty to provide information to the United Kingdom Health Security AgencyF5

This regulation applies where a notification has been made by the operator of a diagnostic laboratory to F1the United Kingdom Health Security Agency under regulation 4.

F2The United Kingdom Health Security Agency may request that the person (R) who solicited the laboratory test which identified the causative agent to which the notification relates, provide to it the information listed at regulation 4(2) insofar as that information was not included in the notification.

R must provide the information requested under paragraph (2) insofar as it is known to R.

The information must be provided in writing within 3 days beginning with the day on which the request is made.

Without prejudice to paragraph (4), if F3the United Kingdom Health Security Agency considers the case to be urgent and informs R of this fact when making the request, the information must be provided orally as soon as reasonably practicable.

In determining whether the case is urgent, F4the United Kingdom Health Security Agency must have regard to—