Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2021

“Workforce testing6K.

(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 20063;

(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.”