The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021

[F1 Self-isolation requirements on eligible travellers E+W

3K.— (1) Where a person (“P”) is required by regulation 3J to undertake a day 2 test and—

(a) P fails to undertake a day 2 test before the end of the permitted period, paragraph (2) applies;

(b) P or, where P is a child, an adult with responsibility for P (“R”) receives notification that the day 2 test has generated—

(i) an inconclusive result, paragraph (3) applies;

(ii) a positive result, paragraph (4) applies.

(2) The Self-Isolation Regulations apply to P or, where P is a child, to R, as if—

(a) they had, immediately before the end of the permitted period, received notification from a relevant person under regulation 2A(1) of the Self-Isolation Regulations that P has tested positive for coronavirus,

(b) P’s period of self-isolation begins on deemed receipt of notification under sub-paragraph (a) and ends on the earlier of—

(i) the end of the 14th day after the day P arrived in England;

(ii) the time that P is notified of the result of a replacement day 2 test undertaken by P, and

(c) the requirements at regulation 2A(2)(b) and (3)(b) (notifying the relevant person of persons living in P’s household) were omitted.

(3) The Self-Isolation Regulations apply to P or, where P is a child, to R, as if—

(a) the notification of the inconclusive result were notification from a relevant person under regulation 2A(1) of the Self-Isolation Regulations that P has tested positive for coronavirus,

(b) P’s period of self-isolation begins on receipt of the notification of the inconclusive result and ends—

(i) if P does not undertake a replacement day 2 test, at the end of the 10th day after the day P undertook the day 2 test;

(ii) if P undertakes a replacement day 2 test which generates a negative result, on receipt of the negative result;

(iii) if P undertakes a replacement day 2 test which generates a positive result, at the end of the 10th day after the day P undertook the replacement day 2 test, and

(c) the requirements at regulation 2A(2)(b) and (3)(b) (notifying the relevant person of persons living in P’s household) were omitted.

(4) The Self-Isolation Regulations apply to P or, where P is a child, to R, as if the notification of the positive result were notification from a relevant person under regulation 2A(1) of those Regulations that P has tested positive for coronavirus.

(5) In this regulation—

(a) “the permitted period” means the period ending at the end of the second day after the day on which P arrived in England;

(b) “replacement day 2 test” has the meaning given in regulation 3J(10)(b).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 1B inserted (4.10.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 13) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1107), regs. 1(2), 6