PART 3Requirement to isolate etc.

CHAPTER 1Requirement to isolate etc. where person tests positive for coronavirus or has close contact with such person

Isolation requirements: exception for participants in a testing schemeI111

1

This regulation applies where—

a

a person (“P”) is required to not leave or be outside of the place where P is living by virtue of regulation 8(2) or 9(2) (“the isolation requirement”), and

b

P agrees to participate in a testing scheme.

2

If P's first test under the testing scheme is negative for coronavirus, the isolation requirement ceases to apply to P from the time P receives the result of the test, subject to paragraphs (3) and (4).

3

If the result of a test taken by P under the testing scheme is positive for coronavirus, the isolation requirement applies to P from the time P receives the result of the test as if it had not ceased to apply by virtue of paragraph (2).

4

Despite paragraph (2) the isolation requirement applies to P on—

a

non-test days;

b

any day on which P is required to take a test under the scheme but fails to do so.

5

If P's last test under the testing scheme is negative for coronavirus, the isolation requirement ceases to apply to P from the earlier of—

a

the time P receives the result of the test, or

b

P's last day of isolation calculated in accordance with regulation 8 or 9 as the case may be.

6

Where P is a child—

a

a person with responsibility for P must agree on P's behalf that P is to participate in a testing scheme;

b

the references in paragraphs (2) and (5)(a) to P receiving the result of a test include references to a person with responsibility for P receiving the result.

7

In this regulation—

a

testing scheme” means a scheme designated by the Welsh Ministers under which P is required to take a number of tests for coronavirus specified in the scheme, on dates and in a manner so specified;

b

non-test day” means a day between the day on which P takes the first and last test under the scheme on which P is not required to take a test under the scheme.