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Test requirements: offshore installation workers 
8. —(1) This regulation applies to a person (“P”) to w hom regulation 5(4) applies. 
(2)  P must undertake a day 2 test after arriving in Eng land but before P departs to the offshore 
installation. 
(3)  If P intends to depart to the offshore installation before P has received the result of the day 2 
test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (2), P must also take a workforce test before P departs to the 
offshore installation. 
(4)  If a workforce test undertaken pursuant to paragrap h (3) generates a positive result P must 
self-isolate in accordance with regulation 2 of the  Self-Isolation Regulations until P has received 
the result of the day 2 test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (2). 
(5)  If the day 2 test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (2) generates a positive result P must self-
isolate in accordance with regulation 2 of the Self -Isolation Regulations until the end of the 10th 
day after P undertook that test. 
(6)  If the day 2 test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (2) generates a negative result, from the 
time that P is notified of that result, P is no lon ger subject to any requirement to self-isolate by 
virtue of paragraph (4). 
(7)  Subject to paragraph (8), while P is on an offshore  installation, P must undertake a 
workforce test before the end of the third day foll owing the day P arrives on the installation and 
then within each successive 3 day period within 3 days of the test most recently taken. 
(8)  P is not required to undertake any workforce test after the 10th day after the day P arrived in 
England. 
(9)  If a workforce test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (7) generates a positive result, P must— 
(a)  undertake a day 2 test as soon as reasonably practicable; and 
(b)  self-isolate in accordance with regulation 2 of the  Self-Isolation Regulations until the 
earlier of— 
(i)  the time P is notified of the result of the day 2 t est undertaken pursuant to sub-
paragraph (a), or 
(ii)  the end of the 10th day after the day P arrived in England. 
(10)  If a day 2 test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (9 )(a) generates a positive result, P must 
self-isolate in accordance with regulation 2 of the  Self-Isolation Regulations until the 10th day 
after the day P undertook that test. 
(11)  If a day 2 test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (9 )(a) generates a negative result, from the 
time that P is notified of that result P is no long er subject to any requirement to self-isolate by 
virtue of paragraph (9)(b). 
(12)  If P returns to England from the offshore installat ion on or before the 8th day after the day 
P arrived in England, P must undertake a day 8 test  on, or as soon as reasonably practicable after, 
the 8th day after P the day arrived in England. 
(13)  If the day 8 test undertaken pursuant to paragraph (12) generates a positive result, P must 
self-isolate in accordance with regulation 2 of the  Self-Isolation Regulations until the end of the 
10th day after P undertook that test. 
(14)  In this regulation— 
“day 2 test” has the same meaning as in regulation 6(12)(a); 
“day 8 test” has the same meaning as in regulation 6(12)(b); 
“offshore installation” has the same meaning as in paragraph 29 of Schedule 4; 
“workforce test” has the same meaning as in regulat ion 7(6)(b).