8.—(1) This regulation applies to a person (“P”) to whom regulation 5(4) applies.
(2) P must undertake a day 2 test after arriving in England but before P departs to the offshore installation.
(3) If P intends to depart to the offshore installation before P has received the result of the day 2 test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (2), P must also take a workforce test before P departs to the offshore installation.
(4) If a workforce test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (3) generates a positive result P must self-isolate in accordance with regulation 2 of the Self-Isolation Regulations until P has received the result of the day 2 test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (2).
(5) If the day 2 test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (2) generates a positive result P must self-isolate in accordance with regulation 2 of the Self-Isolation Regulations until the end of the 10th day after P undertook that test.
(6) If the day 2 test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (2) generates a negative result, from the time that P is notified of that result, P is no longer subject to any requirement to self-isolate by virtue of paragraph (4).
(7) Subject to paragraph (8), while P is on an offshore installation, P must undertake a workforce test before the end of the third day following the day P arrives on the installation and then within each successive 3 day period within 3 days of the test most recently taken.
(8) P is not required to undertake any workforce test after the 10th day after the day P arrived in England.
(9) If a workforce test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (7) generates a positive result, P must—
(a)undertake a day 2 test as soon as reasonably practicable; and
(b)self-isolate in accordance with regulation 2 of the Self-Isolation Regulations until the earlier of—
(i)the time P is notified of the result of the day 2 test undertaken pursuant to sub-paragraph (a), or
(ii)the end of the 10th day after the day P arrived in England.
(10) If a day 2 test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (9)(a) generates a positive result, P must self-isolate in accordance with regulation 2 of the Self-Isolation Regulations until the 10th day after the day P undertook that test.
(11) If a day 2 test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (9)(a) generates a negative result, from the time that P is notified of that result P is no longer subject to any requirement to self-isolate by virtue of paragraph (9)(b).
(12) If P returns to England from the offshore installation on or before the 8th day after the day P arrived in England, P must undertake a day 8 test on, or as soon as reasonably practicable after, the 8th day after P the day arrived in England.
(13) If the day 8 test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (12) generates a positive result, P must self-isolate in accordance with regulation 2 of the Self-Isolation Regulations until the end of the 10th day after P undertook that test.
(14) In this regulation—
“day 2 test” has the same meaning as in regulation 6(12)(a);
“day 8 test” has the same meaning as in regulation 6(12)(b);
“offshore installation” has the same meaning as in paragraph 29 of Schedule 4;
“workforce test” has the same meaning as in regulation 7(6)(b).
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 8 in force at 17.5.2021 at 4.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)