SCHEDULE 8Mandatory testing after arrival in England
Requirement to self-isolate on failure to undertake a mandatory test
2.
(1)
Sub-paragraph (2) applies where P is not a person of the description in regulation 5(1)(b), (c) or (d) and—
(a)
either—
(i)
P fails to undertake a day 2 test, or
(ii)
P's day 2 test generates a negative or inconclusive result, and
(b)
P fails to undertake a day 8 test.
(2)
Where this sub-paragraph applies, P must continue to self-isolate in accordance with the relevant self-isolation provisions until the end of the 14th day after the day on which they arrived in England.
(3)
Sub-paragraph (4) applies where P is a person of the description in regulation 5(1)(b), (c) or (d) and P fails to undertake a day 2 test.
(4)
Where this sub-paragraph applies, P must self-isolate in accordance with regulation 2 of the Self-Isolation Regulations as if P had been notified under regulation 2A(1)(a) of those Regulations, on the date that P should have undertaken the day 2 test, that P had tested positive, until the earlier of —
(a)
the end of the 14th day after the day P arrived in England; or
(b)
the time that P is notified of the result of a test meeting the requirements of a day 2 test save as to the time at which that test is to be undertaken, that P has undertaken.
(5)
Sub-paragraph (6) applies where P is a person of the description in regulation 5(1)(b), (c) or (d) and P fails to undertake a day 8 test.
(6)
Where this sub-paragraph applies, P must self-isolate in accordance with regulation 2 of the Self-Isolation Regulations as if P had been notified under regulation 2A(1)(a) of those Regulations, on the date that P should have undertaken the day 8 test, that P had tested positive, until the earlier of—
(a)
the end of the 14th day after the day P arrived in England; or
(b)
the time that P is notified of the result of a test meeting the requirements of day 8 test save as to the time at which the test is undertaken, that P has undertaken.
(7)
If the result notified to P of a test of the description in sub-paragraph (4)(b) or (6)(b) is 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 the day P arrived in England.
(8)
Where P undertakes a test to which paragraph 3(7)(b) applies and which generates—
(a)
a positive result, paragraph 3(1) applies as if the test were a mandatory test;
(b)
a negative result, paragraph 3(4) applies as if—
(i)
P had taken both a day 2 test and a day 8 test, and
(ii)
both tests had generated a negative result.