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NEW CORONAVIRUS SELF-ISOLATION REGS PUBLISHED, a respectable(!) 5 hours before they come into force. In lees of the excellent @AdamWagner1, here& #39;s my attempt...
Regs kick in when ad adult is "notified" (doesn& #39;t seem to be defined in the regs), with para (4) setting out the very broad list of people who can notify - includes employees and those "employed or engaged" by the NHS / LAs.
"Close contact" is defined in reg 5, although interesting there doesn& #39;t seem to be (that I can immediately see) any mechanism by which to challenge the "notifiers" assessment of close contact - the problem we all saw coming months ago...
... so it seems to be down to the "notifier" to assess whether there& #39;s been a positive test and / or close contact. So long as you& #39;re told it& #39;s one of those, the self-isolation provisions in (3) kick in...
... these say that (i) must SI (more on that in a minute), AND notify the SS (not necessarily the person who "notifies" you) of your intended address for said SI. Not sure how that will work in practice...
... SI is defined in (3) as meaning staying in your own home, or children can be sent to SI with friends / family it seems....
.. see also the requirement to tell the SS of who else lives at the address (not limited to when asked). Presume they will also ask for contact details, but not clear under what authority..
... the exceptions are limited by "necessity" (not "reasonable necessity"), and comprise the usual bits (NB moving house seems an omission, but probably caught by (viii)...
... screenshots here....
... where there& #39;s a positive test, SI starts immediately. The end periods is (bear with me...) ten days from either (i) five days prior to the test if symptoms are reported, (ii) the date symptoms are reported if this is later than (i)...
... or (iii) ten days from the test if no symptoms are reported....
... if it& #39;s a "close contact" it depends whether you live in the same house as the positive "testee". If so, it& #39;s +4 days from the period they have to SI. If it& #39;s not (i.e. work, public place etc), it& #39;s 14 days from the last "close contact"...
... as determined by the SS / NHS (i.e. still seemingly non right of challenge - could get dicey (geddit, geddit?!))...
... ... reg 7/8 oblige employees to notify employers, and employers can& #39;t "knowingly" allow the employee to go anywhere but where they are SI& #39;ing...
...Finally, enforcement. Police and anyone designated by the SS (COVID-wardens?) can forcibly remove people back to where they should be SI& #39;ing...
... the offences are found in reg 10, which is where reasonable excu
se comes in it seems. Note the separate offence under (2), which attracts £4,000 fixed penalty rather than the usual £1,000, presumably to penalise people going on pub-crawls etc. No requirement for a +ve test..
se comes in it seems. Note the separate offence under (2), which attracts £4,000 fixed penalty rather than the usual £1,000, presumably to penalise people going on pub-crawls etc. No requirement for a +ve test..
... there& #39;s also the much promised "knowingly giving false information" offence (sounds like a minefield) AND an offence for knowingly giving false contacts! Though I& #39;m not sure how that can ever be enforced in practice if all reports are confidential...
... here...
