Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) Regulations 2020
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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 scheme11.
(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.