The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Public Health Information to Travellers) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022

Amendment of regulation 6E

7.—(1)  Regulation 6E (consequences of a positive test result) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), at the end insert—

“(c) P is a regulation 2A traveller–

(i) where the test is a day 2 PCR test, paragraphs (6A) and (7) apply;

(ii) where the test is day 2 LFD test, paragraphs (6B), (6C) and (7) apply.”

(3) Before paragraph (7), insert—

“(6A) P is to be treated as if the requirements of regulation 7 applied and P must enter into and remain in isolation in accordance with that regulation until the last day of the period of 10 days beginning with the day on which P took the test.

(6B) P must as soon as reasonably practicable undertake a confirmatory test provided by the Welsh Ministers for the purposes of this paragraph.

(6C) P is to be treated as if the requirements of regulation 7 applied and P must enter into and remain in isolation in accordance with that regulation until the earlier of—

(a) the last day of the period of 10 days beginning with the day on which P took the day 2 LFD test;

(b) the time that P is notified that the result of the confirmatory test undertaken in accordance with paragraph (6B) is negative.

(6D) In this regulation, a person is deemed to receive notification of a result in relation to a day 2 LFD test when the person determines the result in accordance with the test manufacturer’s instructions for use.”

(4) In regulation 6E, at the end insert—

“(9) In this regulation—

“day 2 LFD test” means a test within the meaning of regulation 6AB(2)(a)(ii)(bb);

“day 2 PCR test” means a test within the meaning of regulation 6AB(2)(a)(ii)(aa).”