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

Consequences of test results E+W

3.—(1) Subject to paragraphs 4 (optional tests) and 5 (tests other than in accordance with these Regulations), where a mandatory test undertaken by P in accordance with regulation 6 generates a positive result—

(a) the following do not apply in relation to P—

(i) regulation 9(11)(a) or, as the case may be, paragraph 13(1)(a) of Schedule 11 (leaving self-isolation to travel in order to leave England),

(ii) subject to [F1 sub-paragraphs (2) and (2A)], regulation 2A (requirements on person notified of positive test) of the Self-Isolation Regulations; and

(b) P and, subject to sub-paragraph (3), any person who is self-isolating with P must continue to self-isolate in accordance with the relevant self-isolation provisions until the end of the 10th day after the day P undertook the test.

(2) Regulation 2A of the Self-Isolation Regulations continues to apply to a person within regulation 5(1)(a), (c), (d), (e), [F2 (2) and (6)].

[F3 (2A) Where P has received a notification in the form of Form B F4 ... in paragraph 11(3), regulation 2A, apart from paragraphs (2)(a) and (3)(a), of the Self-Isolation Regulations apply to P.]

(3) Where a person (“B”) is self-isolating with P pursuant to the relevant self-isolation provisions, the requirement to self-isolate under sub-paragraph (1)(b) does not apply to B where—

(a) the test referred to in sub-paragraph (1) is P's day 8 test; and

(b) B undertook a day 2 test that generated a positive result.

(4) Subject to paragraph 4, where P's day 2 test and day 8 test both generate a negative result, P must continue to self-isolate in accordance with the relevant self-isolation provisions until the later of—

(a) the end of the default self-isolation period;

(b) the day on which P receives the result of their day 8 test.

(5) Where a mandatory test undertaken by P generates an inconclusive result P must continue to self-isolate in accordance with the relevant self-isolation provisions—

(a) until the end of the 10th day after the day P undertook the test;

(b) where P undertakes a test to which sub-paragraph (7) applies and the test generates a negative result, until the later of—

(i) the end of the default self-isolation period,

(ii) the day on which P receives the negative result; or

(c) where P undertakes a test to which sub-paragraph (7) applies and the test generates a positive result, until the end of the 10th day after the day P undertook the test.

(6) Where sub-paragraph (5)(c) applies, P is not required to undertake a day 8 test in accordance with regulation 6.

(7) This sub-paragraph applies to—

(a) a day 8 test;

(b) a test—

(i) complying with the requirements for a day 8 test specified in paragraphs 8 and 9 (other than the requirement in paragraph 9(1)(e) that the test be administered or provided to P no earlier than the end of the seventh day after the day on which P arrived in England),

(ii) undertaken in the circumstances specified in paragraph 10 (other than the circumstances in paragraph 10(2) about when a test must be undertaken), and

(iii) undertaken during the period specified in sub-paragraph (5)(a).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 8 para. 3(1)(a)(ii) substituted (18.12.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 26) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1463), regs. 1(2), 9 (with reg. 12)

F2 Words in Sch. 8 para. 3(2) substituted (9.10.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 14) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1130), regs. 1(2), 20(2) (with reg. 23)

F3 Sch. 8 para. 3(2A) inserted (30.11.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) (No. 21) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1339), regs. 1(2), 9(3) (with reg. 16)

F4 Words in Sch. 8 para. 3(2A) omitted (7.1.2022 at 4:00 a.m.) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/11), regs. 1(2), 16(3)

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 8 para. 3 in force at 17.5.2021 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)