stevewaters wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 12:03 am
The best we can hope for is the removal of the "must return home" requirement,
I've said it before but I'll say it again anyway, there is no requirement to return home in the Act. Th guidance they keep producing is just that, it is not the law. The law hasn't changed since the start of the lock-down.
There is a list of reasons why you may leave your home, provided you are undertaking one of these activities you are not breaking the law.
How could they define/restrict when you go out? You are allowed out to work and many key workers will work shift as they are in jobs that are staffed 24hrs, so they cant return home each night.
We are allowed out to 'exercise' but there are no further clauses to define what this is, where that is or how long it takes. It doesn't even say you have to start from home so those people who headed out to the national parks to walk weren't breaking the law, which might be why they got the police to tone down the level of their response early on when they started filming people with drones. They probably realised that if someone challenged their fine through the courts it would show how badly written the Act is. They are relying on social pressure and the media to make anyone who doesn't follow 'guidance' some sort of enemy of the people.
If stopping to bivi formed a part of your exercise before the lock-down then I see no reason why it is not legal to do so now. But whether it's possible to go for a bivi guilt-free and without risking the wrath of the public is another question.
Going back to the comments before about heading out with bikepacking bags and arousing suspicion I think we are seeing this with the eyes of a Boner
The general public have no more idea what is in my bar bag than they notice I'm riding a single-speed. Heading out on a bike with bivi kit is so far off the radar for a normal member of the public that unless you have an old fashioned roll mat strapped to the bars it wouldn't occur to them that this is what you are doing, they'd probably think you were off to a yoga class
I did 3 days of local riding with my bags in for the WRT and didn't get a single comment or strange look.