The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (revoked)

[F1 Restrictions on the hospitality sector N.I.

8.— (1) [F2 A person responsible for carrying on a business or a members’ club which sells or provides food or drink (including intoxicating liquor) for consumption on the premises] —

(a) must close any premises, or part of premises, in which food or drink (including intoxicating liquor) are consumed on the premises;

(b) must not sell or provide food or drink (including intoxicating liquor) for consumption on its premises; and

(c) may sell or provide food or drink (not including intoxicating liquor) for consumption off the premises in response to orders placed between the hours of 05:00 and 23:00.

F3 (1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2) A person responsible for carrying on a business which sells food or drink (not including intoxicating liquor) for consumption off the premises may continue to do so only in response to orders placed between the hours of 05:00 and 23:00.

(3) (a) A person responsible for carrying on a business which sells [F4 or provides] intoxicating liquor for consumption off the premises (but not a bar, including a bar in a members’ club, or a public house [F5 during the period ending at 23:59 on 19 November 2020]) may continue to do so only from 08:00 on Monday to Saturday, and from 10:00 on Sunday, until 20:00 on any day, or in response to orders placed between those hours;

(b) Head (a) shall not apply in an airport.

[F6 (c) A person referred to in head (a) may sell or provide, or permit the sale or provision of, intoxicating liquor in accordance with this sub-paragraph only in a manufacturer’s original sealed packaging.]

(4) (a) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), food or drink (not including intoxicating liquor) sold by a hotel or a guesthouse as part of a service for residents, whether or not in a restaurant on the premises, is not to be treated as being sold for consumption, or as consumed, on its premises; and

(b) sub-paragraph (1) shall not prevent or prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquor by a hotel or a guesthouse as part of a service for a resident, or the consumption of intoxicating liquor on the premises, provided that the intoxicating liquor is—

(i) consumed only by the resident;

(ii) consumed only within the resident’s accommodation and

(iii) is not delivered to the accommodation in response to an order placed by the resident.

(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), food or drink (not including intoxicating liquor) sold or provided [F7 on a ferry crossing which lasts or is expected to last three hours or more,] in a canteen in a workplace, school, prison, hospital, care home or military establishment is not to be treated as being sold for consumption, or as consumed, on its premises.

(6) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), food or drink (including intoxicating liquor) sold or provided in a port, airport or motorway service station F8 ... is not to be treated as being sold for consumption, or as consumed, on the premises.

(7) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), an area adjacent to the premises where seating [F9 , tables or other facilities are made available] for customers of the business or members’ club (whether or not by the business or members’ club) is to be treated as part of the premises.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2 substituted (16.10.2020 at 10.30 p.m.) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 9) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/224), regs. 1(2), 3(5)

F2 Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(1) substituted (26.11.2020 at 23.59) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 17) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/287), regs. 1(2), 2(9)

F3 Sch. 2 para. 8(1A) omitted (26.11.2020 at 23.59) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 17) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/287), regs. 1(2), 2(10)

F4 Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(3) inserted (13.11.2020 at 6.30 p.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 15) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/256), regs. 1(2), 3(7)(a)

F5 Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(3) inserted (13.11.2020 at 6.30 p.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 15) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/256), regs. 1(2), 3(7)(b)

F6 Sch. 2 para. 8(3)(c) inserted (13.11.2020 at 6.30 p.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 15) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/256), regs. 1(2), 3(7)(c)

F7 Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(5) inserted (18.10.2020 at 9.30 p.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 10) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/225), regs. 1(2), 2(10)

F8 Word in Sch. 2 para. 8(6) omitted (13.11.2020 at 6.30 p.m.) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 15) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/256), regs. 1(2), 3(8)

F9 Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(7) substituted (3.11.2020 at 5.30 p.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 12) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/239), regs. 1(2), 3(2)