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

Requirement to undertake workforce testsE+W

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7.—(1) This regulation applies to a person (“P”), to whom regulation 5(3) or (4) applies.

(2) Subject to [F1paragraphs (7) and (10)]—

(a)where P is a person to whom regulation 5(3) applies, P must undertake a workforce test for day 2, day 5 and day 8 in accordance with paragraph (6) in relation to each category of test;

(b)where P is a person to whom regulation 5(4) applies, P must undertake a workforce test for day 2 in accordance with paragraph (6)(c).

(3) Where P does not undertake a workforce test as required by this regulation by reason of a reasonable excuse (see regulation 19(1)(d) and (5)), P must, as soon as practicable after the matters giving rise to the reasonable excuse no longer pertain, undertake a replacement workforce test.

(4) Where a replacement workforce test is undertaken instead of—

(a)a workforce test to be undertaken for day 2, P is to be treated as if they had undertaken a workforce test on day 2 in accordance with this regulation;

(b)a workforce test to be undertaken for day 5, P is to be treated as if they had undertaken a workforce test on day 5 in accordance with this regulation;

(c)a workforce test to be undertaken for day 8, P is to be treated as if they had undertaken a workforce test on day 8 in accordance with this regulation.

(5) Schedule 9 (workforce tests) makes further provision about workforce tests (including the consequences of testing).

(6) In these Regulations—

(a)“a replacement workforce test” means a workforce test complying with the requirements that apply to the workforce test that was missed;

(b)“a workforce test” means a test for the detection of coronavirus which is provided or administered under the National Health Service Act 2006 M1;

(c)“a workforce test undertaken for day 2” means a test which is undertaken no later than the end of the second day after the day on which P arrived in England;

(d)“a workforce test undertaken for day 5” means a workforce test which—

(i)is undertaken after a workforce test for day 2,

(ii)is undertaken no earlier than the end of the second day after the day on which P arrived in England, and

(iii)is undertaken before the end of the fifth day after the day on which P arrived in England;

(e)“a workforce test undertaken for day 8” means a workforce test which—

(i)is undertaken after a workforce test undertaken for day 5,

(ii)is undertaken no earlier than the end of the fourth day after the day on which P arrived in England, and

(iii)is undertaken before the end of the eighth day after the day on which P arrived in England.

(7) For any period during which P is a recurring work traveller, paragraph (2) does not apply and paragraph (9) applies to P instead.

(8) P is a “recurring work traveller” where—

(a)P is undertaking work that requires P to enter and leave England on a daily basis, or at intervals of no greater than two days, and is entering and leaving accordingly; and

(b)P does not fall within the description in paragraph 13 of Schedule 4 (road haulage workers).

(9) [F2Subject to paragraph (10), where] this paragraph applies, P must undertake a workforce test—

(a)before the end of the second day after the day P first arrives in England during the period during which P is a recurring work traveller or as soon as reasonably practicable during the time P is next in England after the end of the second day; and

(b)subsequently, within each successive period of three days, beginning with the day after the day on which P took the previous workforce test.

[F3(10) Paragraphs (2) and (9) do not apply where—

(a)P is a person described in any of the following paragraphs of Schedule 4—

(i)paragraph 6 (seamen and masters),

(ii)paragraph 7 (pilots),

(iii)paragraph 8 (inspectors and surveyors of ships),

(iv)paragraph 9 (aircraft crew and pilots),

(v)paragraph 10 (international rail crew, passenger and freight operator),

(vi)paragraph 15 (Channel Tunnel system workers);

(b)P meets the condition in paragraph 11 of Schedule 4 (travel on conveyance without passengers etc.); and

(c)P—

(i)does not disembark from or leave the conveyance on which P travelled to England at any time when the conveyance is moored at a port in England or is otherwise stationary in England, or

(ii)travelled to England on the same conveyance on which they left England and did not disembark from or leave that conveyance at any time when it was moored at a port in a country outside the common travel area or was otherwise stationary in such a country.]

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Commencement Information

I1Reg. 7 in force at 17.5.2021 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)

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