The Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020

Screening requirements

6.—(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, the screening requirements, in relation to a person (“P”) are requirements to the effect that P must─

(a) answer questions about P’s health or other relevant circumstances (including travel history and information about other individuals with whom P may have had contact);

(b) produce any documents which may assist a registered public health consultant or public health officer in assessing P’s health;

(c) at such time as a registered public health consultant may specify, allow a public health officer, or a medical officer, to take a biological sample of P, including a sample of P’s respiratory secretions or blood, by appropriate means including by swabbing P’s nasopharyngeal cavity, or provide such a sample; and

(d) provide sufficient information to enable P to be contacted immediately by a public health officer during such period as a registered public health consultant may specify, where the registered public health consultant considers that such provision of information is necessary in order to reduce or remove the risk of P infecting or contaminating others.

(2) Where P is—

(a) a child; and

(b) accompanied by a responsible adult,

paragraph (3) applies.

(3) The responsible adult must─

(a) secure that P answers questions in accordance with paragraph (1)(a);

(b) answer the questions if P is unable to do so or cannot reliably do so;

(c) produce any documents, required under paragraph (1)(b), on P’s behalf;

(d) allow a public health officer, or a medical officer, to take a biological sample of P, including a sample of P’s respiratory secretions or blood, by appropriate means including by swabbing P’s nasopharyngeal cavity, or provide such a sample; and

(e) provide information where required by a public health officer under paragraph (1)(d).