The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

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.