The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) Regulations 2020

Isolation requirements: exception for participants in a testing scheme

11.—(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.