UK Offence Report

The Health Protection (Notification) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020

UK Statutory Instrument 2020 No. 1175 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
26 October 2020
In force from
23 November 2020
Extent
Not stated
Subject
COVID-19 emergency legislation (2020-2022)
Made under
Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 (“the Principal Regulations”) and require diagnostic laboratories that process tests, and persons who carry out point of care tests, for the detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or influenza virus to notify Public Health England of the results of those tests. Regulation 3 amends regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations to require diagnostic laboratories to notify Public Health England of the results of the SARS-CoV-2 or influenza virus detection tests which they process. Regulation 4 inserts a new regulation 4A into the Principal Regulations. This regulation sets out the information that must be provided to Public Health England by those who carry out point of care tests for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 or influenza virus. Point of care tests are diagnostic tests which are carried out otherwise than in a diagnostic laboratory. It provides that someone who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with this regulation commits an offence for which, on summary conviction, that person would be liable for a fine. Regulation 5 amends regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations to ensure that the notification made under regulation 4A may be made electronically where there is consent. The net costs imposed on business, the voluntary sector and the public sector by these Regulations have been assessed as being less than £5m in any year and therefore a full impact assessment has not been prepared.

Offences created by this instrument

What Parliament said about it

Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.

How Parliament handled it

This instrument became law without a debate or a vote. Under the negative procedure it took effect unless a motion to stop it succeeded, and none was tabled.

Procedure
Made negative — law unless a motion to stop it succeeded
Could either House amend it?
No. A statutory instrument is put to each House as a whole thing, to be approved or not. Neither House can change a word of it.
Committee
Drawn to the special attention of the Houses by a scrutiny committee

Procedural history

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