SCHEDULE 6Requirement to book and undertake tests (mandatory testing after arrival in Northern Ireland)
Consequences of test results (red list and amber list arrivals)
4.
(1)
This paragraph applies in respect of—
(a)
red list arrivals,
(b)
amber list arrivals.
(2)
Where a mandatory test undertaken by P generates a positive result—
(a)
P must continue to isolate, in accordance with the relevant isolation provisions, until the end of the 10th day after the day P undertook the test,
(b)
P may not leave Northern Ireland during this time, and accordingly, regulation 11(4)(a) and paragraph 11(1)(a) of Schedule 7 do not apply.
(3)
But B is not required to isolate under sub-paragraph (2)(c) where—
(a)
the test referred to in sub-paragraph (2) is P’s day 8 test, and
(b)
B undertook a day 2 test that generated a positive result.
(4)
Where P’s day 2 test and day 8 test both generate a negative result, P must continue to isolate in accordance with the relevant isolation provisions until the later of—
(a)
the end of the default 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 isolate in accordance with the relevant 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 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 8.
(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 paragraph 7,
(ii)
undertaken in the circumstances specified in paragraph 8 (other than the circumstances in paragraph 8(2) about when a test must be undertaken), and
(iii)
undertaken during the period specified in sub-paragraph (5)(a).