The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) Regulations 2020 (revoked)

Restrictions on gatherings E+W

6.—(1) During the emergency period, unless paragraph (2) applies, no person may participate in a gathering in the protected area which takes place in a public or private place—

(a) outdoors, and consists of more than six persons, or

(b) indoors, and consists of two or more persons.

(2) This paragraph applies where—

(a) all the persons in the gathering are members of the same household or members of two households which are linked households in relation to each other;

(b) the person is attending a funeral, as—

(i) a member of the deceased person's household,

(ii) a close family member of the deceased person, or

(iii) if no-one within paragraph (i) or (ii) is attending, a friend of the deceased person;

(c) the person concerned is an elite sportsperson, the coach of an elite sportsperson, or (in the case of an elite sportsperson who is a child), the parent of an elite sportsperson, and the gathering is necessary for training or competition;

[F1 (ca) the person concerned is attending a drive-in cinema in a car or other vehicle, and the people in the vehicle are members of the same household, or of two households which are linked households in relation to each other;]

(d) the gathering is reasonably necessary—

(i) for work purposes, or for the provision of voluntary or charitable services;

(ii) to facilitate a house move;

(iii) to provide care or assistance to a vulnerable person, including relevant personal care within the meaning of paragraph 7(3B) of Schedule 4 to the [F2 Safeguarding] Vulnerable Groups Act 2006;

(iv) to provide emergency assistance;

(v) for the purposes of childcare provided by a person registered under Part 3 of the Childcare Act 2006 [F3 or any supervised activity for a child provided by any other person];

(vi) to enable one or more persons in the gathering to avoid injury or illness or to escape a risk of harm;

(vii) to continue existing arrangements for access to, and contact between, parents and children where the children do not live in the same household as their parents, or one of their parents;

(e) the person concerned is fulfilling a legal obligation or participating in legal proceedings;

(f) the gathering takes place at an educational facility and is reasonably necessary for the purposes of education;

(g) the person concerned is attending a person giving birth (“M”), at M's request;

(h) the person concerned (“P”) is visiting a person P reasonably believes is dying (“D”), and P is—

(i) a member of D's household,

(ii) a close family member of D,

(iii) a friend of D, or

(iv) where no-one falling within paragraphs (i) to (iii) is visiting D, any other person;

(i) the person concerned (“P”) is visiting a person (“V”) receiving treatment in a hospital or staying in a hospice or care home, or is accompanying V to a medical appointment and P is—

(i) a member of V's household,

(ii) a close family member of V, or

(iii) a friend of V,

and for these purposes, “care home” has the meaning given in section 3 of the Care Standards Act 2000 M1 .

(3) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) there is a gathering when two or more people are present together in the same place in order to engage in any form of social interaction with each other, or to undertake any other activity with each other;

(b) a place is indoors if it would be considered to be enclosed or substantially enclosed for the purposes of section 2 of the Health Act 2006 M2 , under the [F4 Smoke-free] (Premises and Enforcement) Regulations 2006 M3 .

[F5 (c) a gathering which takes place indoors is a gathering in the protected area if any part of the place where it takes place is in the protected area.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 6(2)(ca) inserted (24.7.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/787), regs. 1(2), 6(2)

F2 Word in reg. 6(2)(d)(iii) substituted (24.7.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/787), regs. 1(2), 6(3)(a)

F3 Words in reg. 6(2)(d)(v) inserted (24.7.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/787), regs. 1(2), 6(3)(b)

F4 Words in reg. 6(3)(b) substituted (24.7.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/787), regs. 1(2), 6(4)

F5 Reg. 6(3)(c) inserted (18.7.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/754), regs. 1(2), 7

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 6 in force at 4.7.2020, see reg. 1(1)

Marginal Citations

M1 2000 c. 14. Section 3 has been amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14). There are other amendments to section 3 which are no relevant to these Regulations.

M2 2006 c. 28. Section 2 was amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the Health (Wales) Act 2017 (2017 anaw 2).

M3 S.I. 2006/3368, to which there are amendments which are not relevant to these Regulations.