It’s apparently now illegal to be in someone else’s house/have a sleepover? Are there any exceptions listed?

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Otherwise we’re a tad screwed! A well thought out plan might need a Plan B but trying not to worry just yet.

Does anyone know?

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Domestic abuse is an exception.

Depends.

How much risk there is. I'm sure you'll have used common sense this whole time.

I think itll be very hard to police or check up on these things.

Children of separated parents are still allowed to move between houses

Be interested to know what the plan a was and how it met social distancing rules?!

There are some exceptions mentioned in this article

This is actually terrifying....we are sleep walking into a totalitarian state. It's nightmarish!

Ok that actually helps, I think this would be deemed ‘reasonable’ and falls under providing care.

We’re supposed to be having my niece when my sister in law goes in to labour!

There are loads of exceptions. This is the law:

“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 [...];
(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[...];
(iii) to provide emergency assistance;
(iv) to avoid injuries or illness, or to escape 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.

This has been done to death elsewhere. This has always been the case during lockdown but covered by the legislation that prevented you from leaving your house except for specific purposes.

The amendments today actually significantly reduce the restrictions but this regulation has been added because it can no longer be covered by the previous restrictions, most of which have been removed.

Cross post - I’m sure your circumstances would count as emergency assistance or providing care to a vulnerable person....

If this was legal before, why did Neil Ferguson have to resign? #confused

Because visiting your mistress didn't fall within any of the exceptions?

It wasn’t legal before, the press are being duplicitous and MN loves to froth. It’s all bollocks.

You've never been allowed to go for sleepovers surely

Your reason is reasonable excuse op. Don't worry.

To me an emergency law saying no one can go out except for certain reasons during the height of a pandemic is reasonable, but when you ease a wide range of measures to help the economy get back to normal but add in a specific law criminalising anyone who has visitors it doesn't feel proportionate. Just my opinion.

Well I’d only heard about it on MN so was worrying I’d missed something huge!