Has the proposed UK travel ban been dropped? Have a read at the law

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• EvilDoctorK says:

  3 Nov3 November 17:18

  I’m not a lawyer, but doesn’t Part 4 – 15.5 imply that lounges at the airport can remain open too ?

• Anna says:

  3 Nov3 November 17:24

  I’ve had a quick look (so glad I don’t have to get to grips with this stuff any more!) and the only contravention would seem to be that you would be leaving your home for a purpose other than the permitted ones, but if you were prepared to risk getting a fine then theoretically it would be possible to get to an airport (and presumably on a plane, if there are actually any flights and depending on what kind of checks are being carried out. I did say the other say I thought actually banning air travel would be a logistical nightmare and it may well be dropped from the lockdown plans. I’m not advocating law breaking but frankly it’s farcical to ban (outbound but not inbound?) foreign travel at this point, especially while keeping schools and unis open!

  • The real John says:

    3 Nov3 November 19:36

    If your primary residence is not in the UK, then are you not breaking the law the moment you arrive in the UK, unless you have a reasonable excuse to be away from your primary residence?

• Sam G says:

  3 Nov3 November 17:27

  I would take the understanding that as it isn’t listed as a reason why you can be outside of the home (to travel to/from the airport) it is therefore not allowed

  One imagines that TUI etc have taken advice on this before suspending their holiday program

  • Lady London says:

    3 Nov3 November 18:36

    +1

  • Josh says:

    4 Nov4 November 09:37

    It isn’t an exhaustive list of exemptions to the prohibition of leaving your home – it is a list of examples. All you need is a ‘reasonable excuse’

• EvilDoctorK says:

  3 Nov3 November 17:29

  Intriguingly there’s still this reference

  “Exception 11: Returning home
  (15) Exception 11 is that it is reasonably necessary for P to be outside P’s home to enable P to return home from any place where P was on holiday immediately before these Regulations came into force. ”

  But no other reference to holiday elsewhere in the document .. I wonder was something excised before this was published and this left in ?

  Anyway yes agreed there is no explicit prohibition that I can see , other than it not being listed as an exception in section 6)

• Andrew says:

  3 Nov3 November 17:32

  IAAL:
  It’s implicit (albeit unhelpful) as not being a valid exception for not remaining at home.
  Trips (air, train, sea) other than for work not possible from home, are forbidden (unless another exception applies). Airport lounges can remain open.

• Anna says:

  3 Nov3 November 17:36

  You can leave your home to view a residential property – it doesn’t say the property has to be in the UK 🤣

  • Dominic Cummings says:

    3 Nov3 November 17:41

    Had same thought. Time to hit the property websites…

    • CraigyC says:

      4 Nov4 November 10:01

      Will that help to test your eyesight too?

• meta says:

  3 Nov3 November 17:50

  This is my favourite bit: “Where a relevant person considers that a person is outside the place where they are living in contravention of regulation 5(1), the relevant person may direct that person to return to the place where they are living.” 🙄

• Anna says:

  3 Nov3 November 17:51

  And this is really piquing my interest – it’s also allowed to leave your home for the purpose of providing a short break for a Looked After Child. I am a respite carer for such a child so this tends to suggest that we could go somewhere if we took him with us!

  • memesweeper says:

    3 Nov3 November 22:49

    this is the Cummings Exemption 😉

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