New regulation 6KE+W
7. After regulation 6J (charge for tests) insert—
“Workforce testing
6K.—(1) This regulation applies to a person (“P”), specified in paragraph 6 of Schedule 2.
(2) P must undertake a workforce test for day 2, day 5 and day 8 in accordance with paragraph (6) in relation to each category of test.
(3) Where P does not undertake a workforce test as required by this regulation by reason of a reasonable excuse, P must, as soon as practicable after the matters giving rise to the reasonable excuse no longer pertain, undertake a replacement workforce test.
(4) Where a replacement workforce test is undertaken instead of—
(a)a workforce test to be undertaken for day 2, P is to be treated as if they had undertaken a workforce test on day 2 in accordance with this regulation;
(b)a workforce test to be undertaken for day 5, P is to be treated as if they had undertaken a workforce test on day 5 in accordance with this regulation;
(c)a workforce test to be undertaken for day 8, P is to be treated as if they had undertaken a workforce test on day 8 in accordance with this regulation.
(5) Schedule 2D makes further provision about workforce tests (including the consequences of testing).
(6) In these Regulations—
(a)“a replacement workforce test” means a workforce test complying with the requirements that apply to the workforce test that was missed;
(b)“a workforce test” means a test which is provided or administered under the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006();
(c)“a workforce test undertaken for day 2” means a test which is undertaken no later than the end of the second day after the day on which P arrived in Wales;
(d)“a workforce test undertaken for day 5” means a workforce test which—
(i)is undertaken after a workforce test for day 2,
(ii)is undertaken no earlier than the end of the second day after the day on which P arrived in Wales, and
(iii)is undertaken before the end of the fifth day after the day on which P arrived in Wales;
(e)“a workforce test undertaken for day 8” means a workforce test which—
(i)is undertaken after a workforce test undertaken for day 5,
(ii)is undertaken no earlier than the end of the fourth day after the day on which P arrived in Wales, and
(iii)is undertaken before the end of the eighth day after the day on which P arrived in Wales.”