{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-notification-regulations-2010/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-notification-regulations-2010/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/659",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-notification-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Electronic communications",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to—\n(a) notifications provided under regulation 2(1), 3(1) , 4(1) and (1A) ... ... and 4A(3);\n(b) information provided under regulation 5(3);\n(c) disclosures made under regulation 6(2);\n(d) lists provided under regulation 3 of the Health Protection (Local Authority Powers) Regulations 2010 (requirement to provide details of children attending school); and\n(e) reports provided under regulations 10(1) (duty to report Part 2A applications) and 11(1) (duty to report variations or revocations of Part 2A orders) of the Health Protection (Part 2A Orders) Regulations 2010 .\n(2) Notifications, information, disclosures, lists and reports, which are required to be in writing, may be communicated electronically if—\n(a) the recipient has consented in writing to receiving the notification, information, disclosure list or report (as the case may be) by an electronic communication; and\n(b) the communication is sent to the number or address specified by the recipient when giving that consent.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1)(a) substituted (23.11.2020) by The Health Protection (Notification) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1175), regs. 1(1), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1)(a) inserted (21.9.2021) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 9) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/966), regs. 1(4)(h), 21(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1)(a) omitted (18.3.2022 at 4.00 a.m.) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (Revocation) (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/317), regs. 1(2), 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1)(a) substituted (3.3.2022) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/125), regs. 1(2)(c)(ii), 36(7) (with reg. 37(1)(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/657."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/658."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/659/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:49:12.464985+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."
}