The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020

Restrictions on movementE+W

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[F16.—(1) No person may, without reasonable excuse, stay overnight at any place other than the place where they are living.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the circumstances in which a person (“P”) has a reasonable excuse include cases where—

(a)P needs to stay elsewhere to attend 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;

(b)P is an elite athlete, a coach of an elite athlete, or (in the case of an elite athlete who is under the age of 18), a parent of the elite athlete, and needs to stay elsewhere for the purposes of training or competition;

(c)P needs to stay elsewhere while moving house;

(d)it is reasonably necessary for P to stay elsewhere—

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

(ii)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 Safeguarding of Vulnerable Groups Act 2006;

(iii)to provide emergency assistance;

(iv)to avoid injury or illness, or to escape a risk of harm;

(v)to obtain medical assistance;

(e)P needs to stay elsewhere to fulfil a legal obligation or participate in legal proceedings;

(f)P is a child that does not live in the same household as their parents, or one of their parents, and the overnight stay is necessary to continue existing arrangements for access to, and contact between, parents and children;

(g)P is unable to return to the place where P lives, because—

(i)it is not safe for P to live there,

(ii)P may not lawfully travel there, or is required by law to stay in another place, or

(iii)the place where P is living is not available to P for any other reason.

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

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1), 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.]

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