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