The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Entry to Venues and Events) (England) Regulations 2021

Requirements: entry to venues or events

5.—(1) The responsible person must take reasonable measures to ensure that no person, except for a person described in paragraph (2)—

(a) is admitted to a venue or an event to which these Regulations apply, or

(b) is permitted to be present in a venue on any occasion when that venue is a Category A venue under paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1.

(2) A person (“P”) may be admitted to, or be permitted to be present in, a venue or event, if P—

(a) satisfies one of the criteria set out in regulation 8(1),

(b) comes within one of the exemptions set out in regulation 8(2), or

(c) is a person referred to in regulation 10.

(3) Unless paragraph (4) or regulation 6(1) applies, the measures taken under paragraph (1) must include a check that each person admitted to, or permitted to be present at, the venue or event—

(a) has evidence that they satisfy the criteria in regulation 8(1),

(b) has evidence that they come within an exemption in regulation 8(2), or

(c) is a person referred to in regulation 10.

(4) Paragraphs (1) and (3) do not apply where a person is being admitted to a venue solely to enable that person to avoid injury or escape a risk of harm.

(5) The responsible person for—

(a) a venue which has the capacity to be a category A venue referred to in paragraph 2, 3, 4 or 5 of Schedule 1, but which is relying on the thresholds in paragraph 2(2)(b), 3(2), 4(5), or 5(2) of that Schedule (“the relevant thresholds”), or

(b) a venue which has the capacity to host an event within category B, C or D, but which is not being used for such events,

must take reasonable measures to ensure that the relevant threshold for the venue or threshold applicable to category B, C or D events, as the case may be, is not exceeded by any event held in that venue, and for these purposes, the capacity of a venue is the combined capacity of all rooms at that venue which are available to host an event.

(6) The responsible person for an event which is being held at a venue described in paragraph (5) must take reasonable measures to ensure that the relevant threshold for the venue, or the threshold applicable to category B, C or D events, is not exceeded by that event.

(7) In these Regulations, “responsible person”—

(a) in relation to an event, means the person responsible for—

(i) organising that event, or

(ii) the management of the premises in which the event is to be held, if no other person is responsible for organising the event;

(b) in relation to a venue, means the person responsible for the management of the venue in question.