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

[F1 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 3B generates a positive result—

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

(i) regulation 4(9)(a) or, as the case may be, paragraph 13(1)(a) of Schedule B1A (leaving self-isolation to travel in order to leave England);

(ii) subject to sub-paragraph (2), [F2 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) [F3 Regulation 2A] of the Self-Isolation Regulations continues to apply to a person within regulation 3B(1)(b) [F4 or (1A)].

(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 3B.

(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 Sch. 2C inserted (15.2.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/150), regs. 1(1), 19 (with reg. 23)

F2 Words in Sch. 2C para. 3(1)(a)(ii) substituted (29.3.2021) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Steps) (England) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/364), reg. 1(2), Sch. 8 para. 2(3)(a) (with reg. 21)

F3 Words in Sch. 2C para. 3(2) substituted (29.3.2021) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Steps) (England) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/364), reg. 1(2), Sch. 8 para. 2(3)(b) (with reg. 21)

F4 Words in Sch. 2C para. 3(2) inserted (19.3.2021 at 4.00 a.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 10) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/348), regs. 1(2), 8 (with reg. 9)