The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (No. 2) Regulations 2020

Requirement to close premises and businesses during the emergency

4.—(1) A person responsible for carrying on a business or providing a service which is listed in the Schedule in the protected area must cease to carry on that business or to provide that service in the protected area during the emergency period.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not prevent the use of—

(a) any suitable premises in the protected area used for the businesses or services listed in the Schedule to host blood donation sessions;

(b) facilities for training by elite sportspersons, including indoor fitness studios, gyms, sports courts, indoor or outdoor swimming pools and other indoor leisure centres;

(c) indoor fitness and dance studios by professional dancers and choreographers.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), a person is a professional dancer or choreographer if that person derives their living from dance, or from choreographing dance, as the case may be.

(4) If a business listed in the Schedule (“business A”) forms part of a larger business (“business B”), the person responsible for carrying on business B complies with the requirement in paragraph (1) if it closes down business A.

(5) Paragraph (1) does not prevent a person responsible for carrying on a business or providing a service listed in the Schedule in the protected area (“the closed business”)—

(a) carrying on a business of offering goods for sale or for hire—

(i) in a shop in the protected area which is separate from the premises used for the closed business, or

(ii) by making deliveries or otherwise providing services in the protected area in response to orders received—

(aa) through a website, or otherwise by on-line communication,

(bb) by telephone, including orders by text message, or

(cc) by post;

(b) operating a café or restaurant in the protected area, if the café or restaurant is separate from the premises used for the closed business.

(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5), a shop, café or restaurant (“SCR”) is separate from premises used for the closed business if—

(a) the SCR is in a self-contained unit, and

(b) it is possible for a member of the public to enter the SCR from a place outside those premises.

(7) For the purposes of this regulation, premises are in the protected area if any part of the premises is in the protected area.