The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020 (revoked)

[F1 Notification of test results E+W

5.— (1) Sub-paragraphs (2) to (6) apply to a test provider who administers or provides an appropriate test to P in the circumstances described in paragraph 4.

(2) The test provider must, within 24 hours of the result becoming available—

(a) notify P or, where paragraph 4(c) applies, X by email, letter, or text message, of the result of P’s test, or

(b) make P’s test result available to P, or to X where paragraph 4(c) applies, via a secure web portal,

in accordance with sub-paragraph (3).

(3) The notification of P’s test result must include P’s name, date of birth, passport number, or travel document reference number (as appropriate), the name and contact details of the test provider and P’s test reference number, and must be conveyed using one of the following forms of words, as appropriate—

Form A: negative test result

Your coronavirus test result is negative. You did not have the virus when the test was done. If you are self-isolating as an international arrival you may stop self-isolating. You should self-isolate if: you get symptoms of coronavirus (you should get an NHS coronavirus test and self-isolate until you get the results) you are going into hospital (self-isolating until the date you go in) someone you live with tests positive you have been traced as a contact of someone who tested positive For advice on when you might need to self-isolate and what to do, go to www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19 and read ‘Self-isolation and treating symptoms’. It is a legal requirement to self-isolate when you arrive in the UK from a non-exempt country, territory or region. If you are contacted by the enforcement authorities or the police after you have received this negative result please show them this notification.

Form B: positive test result

Your coronavirus test result is positive. You had the virus when the test was done. If you have not had symptoms of coronavirus, you must self-isolate for 10 days from your test date. If you have symptoms of coronavirus, you must self-isolate for 10 days from the day your symptoms started, if earlier than when you took your test. People you live with or are travelling with should also self-isolate for 10 days from the day you took the test. You may be contacted for contact tracing and to check that you, and those who you live or are travelling with, are self-isolating. You must not travel, including to leave the UK, during self-isolation. Contact 111 if you need medical help. In an emergency dial 999.

Form C: unclear test result

Your coronavirus test result is unclear. It is not possible to say if you had the virus when the test was done. You must, by law, continue self-isolating for the remainder of your self-isolation period as an international arrival travelling to the UK from a non-exempt country, territory or region. You may be contacted to check that you are self-isolating. If you want to shorten your self-isolation period you will need to take another test for international arrivals. For more information, go to https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-test-to-release-for-international-travel.

(4) The test provider must, on request, provide a constable or any other person employed in or for the purposes of any police force, with—

(a) P’s passport number, or travel document reference number (as appropriate),

(b) P’s test result,

(c) the date on which P undertook the test,

(d) the date on which the test result was notified or made available to P or X in accordance with sub-paragraphs (2) and (3).

(5) Where—

(a) regulation 4 or 4A of the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 applies in relation to the test provider, or

(b) if the test provider arranges with another person (“X”) for X to carry out any element of the single end-to-end testing service on their behalf, either of those regulations applies to X in the carrying out of that element,

the regulation applies as if it required the information described in sub-paragraph (6) to be included in the notification to Public Health England.

(6) The information mentioned in sub-paragraph (5) is—

(a) the date on which P last departed from or transited through a non-exempt country or territory,

(b) P’s coach number, flight number or vessel name (as appropriate),

(c) the country or territory P was travelling from when P arrived in the United Kingdom, and any country or territory they transited through as part of that journey,

(d) the date on which P undertook the appropriate test.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2A inserted (15.12.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 26) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1337), regs. 1, 2(7) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1517, regs. 1(3), 5(2))