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(3)  Where P does not undertake a workforce test as requ ired by this regulation by reason of a 
reasonable excuse (see regulation 19(1)(d) and (5)) , P must, as soon as practicable after the 
matters giving rise to the reasonable excuse no lon ger 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 t o 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 t o 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 t o be treated as if they had undertaken a 
workforce test on day 8 in accordance with this regulation. 
(5)  Schedule 9 (workforce tests) makes further provisio n about workforce tests (including the 
consequences of testing). 
(6)  In these Regulations— 
(a)  “a replacement workforce test” means a workforce te st complying with the requirements 
that apply to the workforce test that was missed; 
(b)  “a workforce test” means a test for the detection o f coronavirus which is provided or 
administered under the National Health Service Act 2006(a); 
(c)  “a workforce test undertaken for day 2” means a tes t which is undertaken no later than the 
end of the second day after the day on which P arrived in England; 
(d)  “a workforce test undertaken for day 5” means a wor kforce 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 England, and 
(iii)  is undertaken before the end of the fifth day after  the day on which P arrived in 
England; 
(e)  “a workforce test undertaken for day 8” means a wor kforce 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 England, and 
(iii)  is undertaken before the end of the eighth day afte r the day on which P arrived in 
England. 
(7)  For any period during which P is a recurring work t raveller, paragraph (2) does not apply 
and paragraph (9) applies to P instead. 
(8)  P is a “recurring work traveller” where— 
(a)  P is undertaking work that requires P to enter and leave England on a daily basis, or at 
intervals of no greater than two days, and is entering and leaving accordingly; and 
(b)  P does not fall within the description in paragraph  13 of Schedule 4 (road haulage 
workers). 
(9)  Where this paragraph applies, P must undertake a workforce test— 
(a)  before the end of the second day after the day P fi rst arrives in England during the period 
during which P is a recurring work traveller or as soon as reasonably practicable during 
the time P is next in England after the end of the second day; and 
(b)  subsequently, within each successive period of thre e days, beginning with the day after 
the day on which P took the previous workforce test. 
                                                                                                                                            
(a) 2006 c. 41.