The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2020

PART 4 Gathering with other people

Restrictions on gatherings

14.—(1) No person may, without a reasonable excuse—

(a) gather outdoors with any other person apart from—

(i) members of their household or of no more than one other household,

(ii) their carer, or

(iii) a person they are providing care to;

(b) gather in premises indoors with any other person apart from—

(i) the members of their household,

(ii) their carer, or

(iii) a person they are providing care to.

(2) A reasonable excuse includes the need to do the following—

(a) obtain medical assistance, including accessing any of the services referred to in paragraph 10 of Schedule 4 or accessing veterinary services;

(b) provide or receive care or assistance, including relevant personal care, within the meaning of paragraph 7(3B) of Schedule 4 to the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Groups Act 2006(1), where the person receiving the care is a vulnerable person;

(c) provide or receive emergency assistance;

(d) donate blood;

(e) work or provide voluntary or charitable services;

(f) where the person is an elite athlete, train or compete;

(g) attend a solemnization of a marriage or formation of a civil partnership—

(i) as a party to the marriage or civil partnership,

(ii) if invited to attend, or

(iii) as the carer of a person attending.

(h) attend a funeral—

(i) as a person responsible for arranging the funeral,

(ii) if invited by a person responsible for arranging the funeral, or

(iii) as the carer of a person attending;

(i) meet a legal obligation, including attending court or satisfying bail conditions, or to participate in legal proceedings;

(j) access or receive critical public services, including—

(i) childcare or educational services;

(ii) social services;

(iii) services provided by the Department for Work and Pensions;

(iv) services provided to victims (such as victims of crime or domestic violence);

(k) in relation to children who do not live in the same household as their parents, or one of their parents, continue existing arrangements for access to, and contact between, parents and children, and for the purposes of this paragraph, “parent” includes a person who is not a parent of the child, but who has parental responsibility for, or who has care of, the child;

(l) move home;

(m) prepare a residential property for persons to move in;

(n) undertake the following activities in connection with the purchase, sale, letting or rental of unoccupied residential property—

(i) visiting estate or letting agents, developer sales offices or show homes;

(ii) viewing such a property;

(o) avoid injury or illness or escape a risk of harm.

(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a person who is homeless.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(n), a property is unoccupied if no person occupies the property as a residence.

Exception for organised outdoor activities

15.—(1) Despite the meaning of “gathering” given by regulation 2(3)(a), regulation 14(1) does not apply to any organised outdoor activity consisting of no more than 30 persons.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), an activity is an “organised outdoor activity” if—

(a) it takes place outdoors,

(b) it is organised by—

(i) a business,

(ii) a public body or a charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution,

(iii) a club or political organisation, or

(iv) the national governing body of a sport or other activity, and

(c) the person organising it has—

(i) carried out a risk assessment which would satisfy the requirements of regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999(2), whether or not the person is subject to those Regulations, and

(ii) complied with the requirements of regulations 12(2) and 13(1).

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(c)—

(a) regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 applies as if the activity were an undertaking conducted by the person organising it;

(b) regulation 12(2) of these Regulations applies as if the place where the activity takes place were open premises for which the person organising the activity is responsible.

Requirement to continue to work from home where practicable

16.—(1) In the circumstances referred to in paragraph (2), no person may leave the place where they are living, or remain away from that place, for the purposes of work or to provide voluntary or charitable services.

(2) The circumstances are that it is reasonably practicable for the person to work or to provide voluntary or charitable services from the place where they are living.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation, the place where a person is living includes the premises where they live together with any garden, yard, passage, stair, garage, outhouse or other appurtenance of such premises.

(1)

2006 c. 47. Paragraph 7(3B) was inserted by section 66(2) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9).

(2)

S.I. 1999/3242. Regulation 3 was amended by S.I. 2005/1541, S.I. 2015/21 and S.I. 2015/1637.