SCHEDULE 8Mandatory testing after arrival in England
Consequences of test results
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 6 generates a positive result—
(a)
the following do not apply in relation to P—
(i)
regulation 9(11)(a) or, as the case may be, paragraph 13(1)(a) of Schedule 11 (leaving self-isolation to travel in order to leave England),
(ii)
subject to sub-paragraph (2), 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)
Regulation 2A of the Self-Isolation Regulations continues to apply to a person within regulation 5(1)(a), (c), (d), (e), F1(2) and (6).
(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 6.
(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).