PART 2RESTRICTIONS RELATING TO PREMISES ETC.
Requirement to close premises
3.—(1) For the purposes of this regulation, “listed premises” and “listed businesses” means the premises and businesses listed in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1.
(2) Listed premises and listed businesses must close.
(3) Where listed premises or a listed business form part of larger premises or business, the person responsible for those larger premises or business complies with paragraph (1) by closing the listed premises or listed business.
Restrictions on non-essential retail businesses
4.—(1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) apply to a retail business which—
(a)offers goods for sale or hire or provides a service, and
(b)is not wholly or mainly a retail business listed in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 or a retail business referred to in paragraph (4).
(2) A retail business referred to in paragraph (1)—
(a)must cease,
(b)the premises from which the business is carried on must close, and
(c)no person must enter those premises.
(3) But a retail business referred to in paragraph (1) may—
(a)deliver goods or services to a person who has made a prior request for, or ordered, them by on-line communication, telephone, text or electronic messaging or post;
(b)in the case of a car dealership which is a Motability dealer, permit a customer (and a carer who accompanies the customer) to collect a Motability vehicle following an on-line application;
(c)keep the premises necessary for the purposes referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) open (provided no customer enters any building).
(4) A retail business selling baby equipment, clothing, footwear or electrical goods, or which is a garden centre or a plant nursery—
(a)must close, but
(b)may allow a customer to collect goods from its premises (provided no customer enters any building), where that customer has, in advance of their collection—
(i)requested or ordered the goods by on-line communication, telephone, text or electronic messaging or post and,
(ii)paid for them.
Restrictions on licenced and unlicenced premises
5.—(1) A person responsible for carrying on a business or a members’ club which sells or provides food or drink (whether or not including intoxicating liquor) for consumption on the premises—
(a)must close the premises, or that part of them, in which that food or drink is consumed;
(b)must not sell or provide food or drink including intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises;
(c)may sell or provide food or drink other than intoxicating liquor for consumption off the premises between the hours of 05.00a.m and 11.00pm; and
(d)must not make deliveries of food or drink between the hours of 11.00pm and 05.00a.m.
(2) But a hotel or guesthouse may sell or provide—
(a)food or drink for consumption on the premises to its residents; or
(b)intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises by a resident (and not by any other person) in the accommodation provided for the private use of the resident, provided that the intoxicating liquor is not delivered to that accommodation in response to a request from the resident.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), food or drink (not including intoxicating liquor) is not to be treated as being sold for consumption, or as consumed, on the premises if sold or provided—
(a)at a port, airport or motorway service station;
(b)on a ferry where the voyage to be undertaken by that vessel lasts or is expected to last in excess of 3 hours; or
(c)in a canteen in a workplace, school, prison, hospital, care home or military establishment.
Restrictions on off-licence businesses
6.—(1) A person responsible for carrying on a business which sells or provides intoxicating liquor for consumption off the premises—
(a)may continue to do so only from 08:00 on Monday to Saturday, and from 10.00a.m on Sunday, until 8.00p.m on any day, but
(b)may not do so outside of those hours.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to an airport.
(3) Intoxicating liquor sold or provided under this regulation must be sold in the manufacturer’s original sealed packaging.
Restrictions on take-away food businesses
7. A person responsible for carrying on a business which sells food or drink for consumption off the premises—
(a)must not do so between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.;
(b)may continue to do so outside of those hours; and
(c)must not make deliveries of food or drink between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m..
Restrictions on Libraries
8.—(1) A person responsible for providing a library service must cease to do so.
(2) But where the library service includes facilities for visitors to access the internet—
(a)those facilities may continue to be provided; and
(b)a visitor may enter the premises from which the library service is being operated for that purpose.
(3) Books, materials and other items ordinarily provided as part of the library service may be delivered to, or collected by, a person who has ordered or requested them in advance by way of an on-line order or request, telephone or text or electronic messaging.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), a visitor may enter the premises from which the library service is being operated for the purpose of collecting an item that person has previously ordered or requested.