The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 4) (Wales) Regulations 2020

PART 3 E+W Restrictions on travel

Restriction on travel to and from Wales E+W

9.—(1) No person living [F1 in a restricted UK area] may enter or remain in Wales without a reasonable excuse.

(2) No person living in Wales may leave Wales [F2 for the purposes of entering or remaining in a restricted UK area] without a reasonable excuse.

(3) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), a person has a reasonable excuse if—

(a) the person leaves or enters Wales for a purpose that is reasonably necessary and there is no reasonably practicable alternative;

(b) one of the circumstances in paragraph (5) applies.

(4) Examples of purposes for which it may be reasonably necessary for a person to enter or leave Wales include—

(a) obtaining or providing medical assistance, or accessing veterinary services;

(b) working or providing voluntary or charitable services;

(c) meeting a legal obligation, including attending court or satisfying bail conditions, or participating in legal proceedings;

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

(e) in relation to children who do not live in the same household as their parents, or one of their parents, continuing existing arrangements for access to, and contact between, parents and children, and for the purposes of this sub-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;

(f) moving home;

(g) undertaking activities in connection with the purchase, sale, letting, or rental of residential property;

(h) accessing or receiving public services;

(i) accessing educational services;

(j) obtaining—

(i) food and medical supplies for those in the same household (including animals in the household) or for vulnerable persons;

(ii) supplies for the essential upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household, or the household of a vulnerable person;

(k) obtaining money from or depositing money with any business or service listed in paragraph 3 or 4 of Part 1 of Schedule 2;

(l) participating in or facilitating an organised activity for the development or well-being of children (including sports, music and other recreational activities such as those provided for children outside of school hours and during school holidays).

(5) The circumstances referred to in paragraph (3)(b) are that the person is—

(a) providing or receiving emergency assistance;

(b) avoiding illness, injury or other risk of harm;

(c) attending 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;

(d) attending 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;

(e) an elite athlete and is training and competing;

(f) providing coaching or other support to an elite athlete, or providing support at a sporting event at which only elite athletes are competing;

(g) travelling on public transport on a journey which begins and ends in Wales;

(h) travelling to participate in a gathering with the person's extended household in accordance with regulation 4 or 6(2)(b).

[F3 (6) For the purposes of this regulation, “restricted UK area” means—

(a) an area of England for the time being specified or described in Part 2 of Schedule 4 to the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020 as being within the Tier 3 area;

(b) an area of Scotland for the time being specified in the table in Schedule 6 to the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020, where the table indicates it is a Level 3 or Level 4 area;

(c) Northern Ireland.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 9(1) substituted (4.12.2020 at 6.00 p.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions and Functions of Local Authorities) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1409), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)

F2 Words in reg. 9(2) inserted (4.12.2020 at 6.00 p.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions and Functions of Local Authorities) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1409), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b)

F3 Reg. 9(6) inserted (4.12.2020 at 6.00 p.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions and Functions of Local Authorities) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1409), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(c)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 9 in force at 9.11.2020, see reg. 1(3)