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15.—(1) A person responsible for carrying on a restricted business, or providing a restricted service, must—
(a)close any premises, or part of the premises, in which food or drink are provided for consumption on those premises, and
(b)cease providing food or drink for consumption on its premises.
(2) The requirement in paragraph (1) is subject to the exceptions in regulation 17(1) and (2).
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), food or drink provided by a hotel or other accommodation as part of room service is not to be treated as being provided for consumption on its premises.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1), except where paragraph (5) applies, references to food or drink being for consumption on premises, include a reference to consumption on an area adjacent to the premises of the restricted business or restricted service where seating is made available for its customers (whether or not by the business or the provider of the service) or which its customers habitually use for consumption of food or drink served by the business or service is to be treated as part of the premises of that business or service.
(5) This paragraph applies where the restricted business or services is situated at—
(a)a motorway service area, or
(b)within a part of—
(i)an airport or maritime port, or
(ii)the international rail terminal area within the vicinity of Cheriton, Folkstone (as referred to in section 1(7)(b) of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987(1)), and
that part of the airport, maritime port or terminal area is accessible between the restricted hours to passengers, crew or other authorised persons but not to members of the general public.
(6) Where a restricted business or restricted service forms, or is provided as, part of a larger business and that larger business is not itself a restricted business, the person responsible for carrying on the larger business complies with the requirement in paragraph (1) by closing down the restricted business or by ceasing to provide the restricted service.
(7) In this regulation, “restricted business” and “restricted service” mean a business or service which—
(a)is of a kind specified in Part 1 of the Schedule, or
(b)is carried on from, or provided at, premises of a kind specified in Part 1 of the Schedule.
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