- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Prosecution 2 of 6 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 4 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Any Person5
Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.002
Duty to notify suspected disease, infection or contamination in patients
Regulated
- Medical practitioners must notify local authorities of suspected infectionsAny Person
s.003
Duty to notify suspected disease, infection or contamination in dead persons
Regulated
- Medical practitioners must notify local authorities of suspected disease in deceased personsAny Person
s.004
Duty on the operators of diagnostic laboratories to notify the United Kingdom Health Security Agency of causative agents found in human samples and of SARS-Cov-2 , respiratory syncytial virus or influenza virus tests processed
Prosecution
- Failure to report infectious agents or virus test resultsAny Person
Unlimited fine
s.005
Duty to provide information to the United Kingdom Health Security Agency
Regulated
- Provide additional diagnostic information to UKHSA upon requestAny Person
s.006
Duty on the relevant local authority to disclose notification to others
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authorities must share public health notifications with relevant bodiesLocal authority
s.duty on test providers to notify results of tests
Duty on test providers to notify results of tests for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 or Influenza virus to the United Kingdom Health Security Agency
Prosecution
- Fail to report Covid-19 or Flu test resultsAny Person
Unlimited fine
6 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Citation, commencement and application
s.004
Duty to notify the United Kingdom Health Security Agency of the results of mandatory tests under the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021
s.007
Electronic communications
s.008
Revocations
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Duty to notify the UK Health Security Agency of the results of genomic sequencing of mandatory test samples under the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021
s.duty to notify the united kingdom health security
Duty to notify the United Kingdom Health Security Agency of the results of lateral flow device tests undertaken by eligible travellers
Schedules
Schedules
0 of 5 shown5 other schedules
s.sch003
Revocations (opens in a new tab)
s.sch003
The Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations 1925 .
s.sch003
The Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988 .
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.