The police can no longer slap people in England with fines for lockdown travel infringements.
As of today the government's Stay at Home order has been replaced with a 'Stay Local' edict.
Where before those travelling too far away from their homes without one of a few approved reasons could be fined, Manchester Evening News reported.
Now people are just being advised to stay close to their homes in a bid to stop the spread of the virus, but police have no powers to restrict movement.
No guidelines have been issued to clarify what 'Stay Local' specifically means, whether local is defined as three, 10 or even 50 miles from your home.
However, people should continue to "minimise travel wherever possible and should not be staying away from home overnight at this stage", the government has said.
It is technically legally to visit family members who live a few hours' away in another part of the country and not be fined, even though this is not in the spirit of 'stay local'.
If you decide to do this, you must also stick to the rules of only meeting outdoors and maintaining social distancing.
A big restricting factor is that it is the ban on spending the night in a property other than your dwelling, meaning the length of cross country trips have a natural ceiling.
This morning minister for sport and tourism Nigel Huddleston was asked by a member of the public whether they could travel to the Lakes to visit their parents outside.
“It is allowed, but it needs to be outside in the garden," he told Sky News.
"If people are travelling they need to think very carefully about how they travel.
"Where they fill up with petrol - if they need food and so on, probably get that locally before you go on the journey.
"Because what we don’t want is people inter-mixing in different parts of the country to any greater degree than necessary.
"And when you do go and visit a friend or a relative, make sure you stay in those gardens or stay outdoors and obey those rules.”
But people who are tempted to travel further afield - on a foreign holiday, for example - risk being slapped with a £5,000 fine if they try and leave the country from today.
Under new Covid laws, published by ministers last week, people are officially banned from travelling abroad without a reasonable excuse.
Several other lockdown rules have been lifted or changed today in England.
For a full list of what you can and can't do, click here.
