{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-notification-wales-regulations-2010/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-notification-wales-regulations-2010/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2010/1546",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Protection (Notification) (Wales) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-notification-wales-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Electronic communications",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to—\n(a) notifications provided under regulations 2(1), 3(1) , 4(1), 4A(1), 4AB, 4B(1), 4C(1) and 4D(3);\n(b) information provided under regulation 5(3);\n(c) disclosures made under regulation 6(2);\n(d) lists provided under regulation 3 (requirement to provide details of children attending school) of the Health Protection (Local Authority Powers) (Wales) Regulations 2010 ; 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) (Wales) 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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1)(a) substituted (21.9.2021) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Notification) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1063), regs. 1(3), 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 7(1)(a) inserted (31.10.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions, International Travel, Notification and Public Health Information to Travellers) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1212), regs. 1(2), 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I.2010/1545 (W.143)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/1544 (W.142)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2010/1546/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:53:33.509343+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."
}