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Old Sep 17, 2020 | 9:55 am
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Originally Posted by Dan1113
For those living in Wales in the two countries where you're not meant to leave without good reason, is traveling abroad thus illegal, or is it like the five mile guidance like we all had before?
yes. any travel outside the defined area is prohibited unless for one of the exemptions:

"...without a reasonable excuse, leave the area or remain away from the area.

(2) A reasonable excuse includes the need to do the following outside the local health protection area—

(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 6 or 7 of Schedule 4;

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

(d)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(2), 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 do so from home;

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

(g)provide or receive emergency assistance;

(h)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;

(i)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;

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

(k)access or receive public services;

(l)access or receive childcare or education services;

(m)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;

(n)move home;

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

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

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), it is not a reasonable excuse for a person to leave, or remain away from, a local health protection area to do anything if it would be reasonably practicable for the person to do that thing within the area."
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