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Originally Posted by nomadking
The mere fact that as I said, chairs were put out and photos taken. That was evidence of not being there just to deliver essential supplies, pictures of which were strangely missing. Was nobody else in the local Labour party prepared to do it?  |
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/...ulation/6/made
You will note that the legislation states:
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(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a reasonable excuse includes the need—
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By phrasing the legislation in this way the list is not exhaustive. Whether it is reasonable, or not, to engage in conversation with a vulnerable person from a safe distance in their garden is open to interpretation.
Whether a public figure, in the course of carrying out said activities safely, could
reasonably publicise it for the purposes of encouraging best practice for the good of public health - again open to interpretation.
“Reasonable” has a definition in case law that is something like how a person of average intelligence would interpret events. E.g. in tax nobody can reasonably plead ignorance to the fact tax exists.