text: **Test requirements: offshore installation workers**
  
  **8.**—(1) This regulation applies to a person (“P”) to whom regulation 5(4) applies. 
  (2) P must undertake a day 2 test after arriving in England 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 paragraph (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 longer 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 following 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 test 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 longer subject to any requirement to self-isolate by 
  virtue of paragraph (9)(b). 
  
  (12) If P returns to England from the offshore installation 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 regulation 7(6)(b). 