Regulation 4 reduces the maximum number who can participate in an outdoor gathering at a private dwelling from thirty people to fifteen people and in an indoor gathering in a private dwelling from ten people in four households to six people in two households. It provides also that up to ten people may attend a wedding or civil partnership ceremony indoors at a private dwelling where one of the participants is terminally ill; and that the restrictions in relation to private dwellings do not apply to funerals or wakes but that those involved must comply with Departmental guidance. It states:

4.  In regulation 6 (restrictions on gatherings: private dwellings)—

(a) in paragraph 6(1) for “A person” substitute “Subject to paragraph (6) a person” and for “thirty” substitute “fifteen”;

(b) in paragraph 6(2) for “paragraphs (3) and (4)” substitute “paragraphs (3), to (6)”;

(c) in paragraphs 6(2) and 6(3) for “ten” substitute “six” at each place where it appears and for “four” substitute “two”;

(d) after paragraph 6(4), insert—

“(5) (a) Paragraph (2) does not apply where the gathering is for the purpose of a marriage or a civil partnership where a party to the marriage or civil partnership is seriously ill and death in consequence of that illness can reasonably be expected within six months of the date of the ceremony;

(b) in case referred to in subparagraph 5(a) an indoor gathering in a private dwelling may consist of up to ten persons including the participants and officiant;

(6) (a) Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply where the gathering is for the purpose of a funeral or an event associated with a funeral;

(b) in a case referred to in subparagraph 6(a) a person attending, or a person responsible for organising or operating, the funeral or event associated with a funeral shall comply with the guidance on funerals issued by the Department of Health;

(c) Regulation 8 (offences and penalties) does not apply to a contravention of the requirement in subparagraph (6)(b).”.