PART 2 E+WRestrictions on movement and gathering with others

Restriction on travelling into Wales E+W

5.—(1) No person living outside Wales may, without a reasonable excuse, enter or remain in Wales.

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

(a) obtain—

(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;

(b) obtain money from or deposit money with any business or service listed in paragraph 44 or 45 of Part 3 of Schedule 1;

(c) obtain or provide medical assistance, including accessing any of the services referred to in paragraph 47 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 or accessing veterinary services;

(d) provide, receive or access 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) work or provide voluntary or charitable services where it is not reasonably practicable to carry out the work or provide the service from outside Wales;

(f) where the person is an elite athlete, train and prepare for, and compete in, a specified sporting event;

(g) provide coaching and other support to an elite athlete in connection with a specified sporting event;

(h) officiate at or otherwise be involved in running a specified sporting event;

(i) provide or receive emergency assistance;

(j) 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;

(k) 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;

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

(m) access or receive public services;

(n) access or receive educational services, subject to regulations 6 and 7;

(o) 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;

(p) move home;

(q) avoid injury or illness or escape a risk of harm;

(r) travel to reach a place outside Wales.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), it is not a reasonable excuse for a person to enter, or remain in, Wales to do anything if it would be reasonably practicable for the person to do that thing outside Wales.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 5 in force at 23.10.2020 at 6.00 p.m., see reg. 1(3)