PART 4 E+WGathering with other people

Restrictions on gatherings E+W

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 M1 , 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;

[F1 (ha) attend a place of worship;]

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

(j) access or receive F2 ... public services F2 ...;

[F3 (ja) access childcare or participate in supervised activities for children;]

(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.

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 14(2)(ha) inserted (20.7.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/752), regs. 1, 2(2) (with reg. 3)

F2 Words in reg. 14(2)(j) omitted (25.7.2020) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/803), regs. 1(3), 2(5)(a) (with reg. 4)

F3 Reg. 14(2)(ja) inserted (25.7.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/803), regs. 1(3), 2(5)(b) (with reg. 4)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 14 in force at 13.7.2020, see reg. 1(4)

Marginal Citations

M1 2006 c. 47. Paragraph 7(3B) was inserted by section 66(2) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9).