| Part 11 — LIVE PERFORMANCE |
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1.—(1) A person staging a live performance must not cause or allow to be staged the live performance anywhere except within —| (a) | any premises as follows:| (i) | any museum established by the National Heritage Board or a museum transferred to the National Heritage Board under section 37 of the National Heritage Board Act 1993; | | (ii) | a building approved under the Planning Act 1998 for use as an exhibition space, event space or art gallery; | | (iii) | a building used for community‑based activities and belonging to or managed or maintained by the People’s Association, such as a community centre, community club or resident’s committee centre; | | (iv) | the community sports and fitness buildings called the National Stadium and the Singapore Indoor Stadium, respectively; | | (v) | a building approved under the Planning Act 1998 for use as a cinema, theatre or performing arts centre; | | (vi) | a building used for the purpose of teaching, training or imparting knowledge or skill but is not a specified school; | | (vii) | a building granted a certificate of registration under the Hotels Act 1954; | | (viii) | a building within a garden, parkland (zoological or otherwise), amusement park, or other tourist attraction access to which by any member of the public is subject to payment of a fee; | | (ix) | a commercial vessel without a cargo deck, designed exclusively for commercial transport of 100 or more passengers in overnight accommodation on an international sea voyage ending not in Singapore and according to pre‑determined routes and timetables that are advertised; | | (x) | Pasir Panjang Power Station at 27 Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore 117537; | | (xi) | Changi Exhibition Centre at 9 Aviation Park Road, Singapore 498760; | | (xii) | Singapore EXPO Convention and Exhibition Centre at 1 Expo Drive, Singapore 486150; | | (xiii) | SUNTEC Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre at 1 Raffles Boulevard, Singapore 039593. | | (xiv) | the building called the Pit Building at 1 Republic Boulevard, Singapore 038975; | | (xv) | Resorts World Singapore at 8 Sentosa Gateway, Singapore 098269; | | (xvi) | Marina Bay Sands at 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018956; or |
| | (b) | any permitted premises of a live performance hirer engaging or contracting the person staging the live performance for the purpose of that live performance, so long as the permitted premises are not a place where a retail liquor business is for the time being carried on. |
(2) In addition, a person staging a live performance must not cause or allow the live performance to be staged in any of the following places, indoor or outdoor, except with the prior approval of the approving authority in relation to the particular live performance:| (a) | an open space which is not roofed or is not enclosed by at least 2 walls; | | (b) | a green or other open space provided for the growing of grass or other vegetation; | | (c) | a retail common area if the premises are a retail shopping centre; | | (d) | if the premises are the subject of a strata title plan, any part of the common property comprised in that strata title plan; | | (e) | any common area within the premises which is used by customers or individuals at work (or any of them in combination) in those premises to move through the premises; | | (f) | a room that is a shared facility and adapted or designed for the conduct of events, functions, ceremonies and the like (such as a communal living room, function room or hall). |
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2.—(1) A person staging a live performance must ensure that any audience member attending that live performance is at least one metre away from any edge of the stage area when the live performance is taking place.| (2) This paragraph does not apply in relation to a rehearsal of a live performance. |
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3.—(1) A person staging a live performance which is not a rehearsal must not stage a live performance that has playing a wind musical instrument or singing as an element of the performance (whether alone or in combination with any other performance elements) unless —| (a) | every performer playing a wind musical instrument or singing (whether or not when wearing a mask) has an enhanced cleared status; and | | (b) | every other performer, and every crew, has a cleared status at all times during the period of the live performance. |
| (2) A person staging a live performance must not stage a live performance which is a rehearsal that has playing a wind musical instrument or singing as an element of the performance (whether alone or in combination with any other performance elements) unless every crew, and every performer (whether or not playing a wind musical instrument or singing and whether or not when wearing a mask), has a cleared status at all times during the period of the rehearsal. |
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4.—(1) A person staging a live performance must take all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that —| (a) | every performer in the live performance is —| (i) | performing alone; or | | (ii) | allocated into and remains part of a cohort not exceeding 5 performers (called in this regulation a performing activity cohort), all the members of which must either be standing or seated generally in a fixed position throughout the period of the live performance; and |
| | (b) | at all times during the period of the live performance there is a distance of at least one metre between every member of every such performing activity cohort from any of the following:| (i) | any other lone performer who is not part of any performing activity cohort in the live performance; | | (ii) | any other performer who is a member of another performing activity cohort in the live performance. |
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(2) However, and without affecting paragraph 3, where any performer in a live performance does any of the following during the period of the live performance:| (a) | play a wind musical instrument; | | (b) | sing, |
| a person staging the live performance must take all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that at all times during the period of the live performance — |
| (c) | where the firstmentioned performer is performing alone — there is a distance of at least one metre between the firstmentioned performer from any of the following:| (i) | any other lone performer who is not part of any performing activity cohort in the live performance; | | (ii) | any other performer who is a member of another performing activity cohort in the live performance; or |
| | (d) | where the firstmentioned performer is a member of a performing activity cohort — there is a distance of at least one metre between every member of that performing activity cohort from any of the following:| (i) | any other lone performer who is not part of any performing activity cohort in the live performance; | | (ii) | any other performer who is a member of another performing activity cohort in the live performance. |
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| (3) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to prevent the transient physical contact between performers or a temporary shorter distance between performers where the artistic merits of the live performance requires. |
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5. A person staging a live performance must take all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that during the period of the live performance, there are not more than the following in total within the stage area on or in which the live performance takes place:| (a) | 50 performers or crew or a combination of performers and crew; | | (b) | a higher number of performers or crew or a combination of performers and crew specified by the approving authority under paragraph 8(3) in relation to a particular live performance. |
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6.—(1) Without limiting paragraph 3, a person staging a live performance must take all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that at all times during the period of the live performance, there are on or in the stage area, whether masked or unmasked —| (a) | not more than 20 performers who perform by singing, and no other performer is performing by playing a wind musical instrument; | | (b) | not more than 20 performers who perform by playing a wind musical instrument, and no other performer is performing by singing; or | | (c) | not more than 20 performers, some of whom perform by singing and others by playing a wind musical instrument. |
(2) Without limiting sub-paragraph (1), a person staging a live performance must take all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that at all times during the period of the live performance, there are on or in the stage area, not more than the following number of performers in the live performance who are unmasked, including any performer described in sub‑paragraph (1) if unmasked:| (a) | 20 performers; | | (b) | a higher total number of performers as specified by the approving authority under paragraph 8(1) in relation to the particular live performance. |
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| (3) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a person staging a live performance must take all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that at all times during the period of the live performance, every crew, and every performer in the live performance, are each wearing a mask during the period of the live performance if the crew or performer does not have a reasonable excuse to be unmasked. |
| (4) If any direction under paragraph 8(3) is addressed to a person staging a particular live performance, the person must, as far as is reasonably practicable, establish and apply appropriate procedures and controls specially relating to that live performance to comply with that direction. |
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7.—(1) An occupier of a live performance venue where a live performance takes place must ensure that during the period of the live performance, no food, liquor or other beverage is sold or served by any individual as follows:| (a) | within the stage area of the live performance venue; | | (b) | within the audience area of the live performance venue. |
(2) In addition, an occupier of a live performance venue where a live performance takes place must ensure that during the period of the live performance, no food or liquor is consumed by any individual as follows:| (a) | within the stage area of the live performance venue; | | (b) | within the audience area of the live performance venue. |
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8.—(1) The approving authority may, on the application of the person staging the live performance or the occupier of a live performance venue where the live performance is taking place or both, and if the approving authority is personally satisfied that all the matters in sub‑paragraph (2) apply, do all or any of the following in respect of the particular live performance:| (a) | approve any indoor or outdoor place mentioned in paragraph 1(2); | | (b) | waive (in whole or part) the requirement in regulation 15(1)(b); | | (c) | waive (in whole or part) the requirement in paragraph 2(1), 4(1) or (2) or 7(1)(b) or (2)(b); | | (d) | specify a higher number for paragraphs 5(b) and 6(1) or (2)(b); | | (e) | specify a higher COVIDSAFE capacity. |
(2) The matters an approving authority must be satisfied are as follows:| (a) | the person staging the live performance and the occupier of the live performance venue concerned —| (i) | have adequately identified the significant risks to the incidence and transmission of COVID‑19 in the community in Singapore associated with the matter applied to be approved, waived or specified; | | (ii) | have established an adequate plan on how to manage or control those risks; and | | (iii) | have the relevant knowledge, competency, experience and suitable compliance record connected with safe management measures for live performances of the same nature as the particular live performance; |
| | (b) | there are requirements in other written law or there are other means that help minimise the public health risks associated with the matter to be approved, waived or specified, besides these Regulations; | | (c) | the granting of the approval, waiver or specifying a higher number (as the case may be) is necessary or desirable to facilitate resumption of business, or to avoid unnecessary restrictions on commerce, having regard to the incidence and transmission of COVID‑19 in the community in Singapore when the application is made; | | (d) | for a live performance in an outdoor place mentioned in paragraph 1(2) —| (i) | the adequacy of the demarcation and the suitability of the layout of the outdoor place, particularly the manner of access and entrances to and exits from the place and the types of access controls at each entrance and exit (where applicable) —| (A) | for securing compliance, by audience members attending and performers at that live performance, with the requirements of these Regulations; and | | (B) | for addressing the risk of a large gathering of individuals which may be present for the purpose of transiting through the outdoor place; and |
| | (ii) | the type of live performance and how it may interact with other activities lawfully taking place in the vicinity of that outdoor place, particularly the requirements of these Regulations in relation to those activities. |
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(3) Any granting of an approval, waiving of a requirement or specifying a higher number (as the case may be) under sub‑paragraph (1) by the approving authority in respect of a particular live performance may be accompanied by directions addressed to the person staging the live performance or the occupier of the live performance venue or both, containing —| (a) | variations of any requirements in these Regulations in relation to that particular live performance; | | (b) | a requirement for enhanced entry controls to be established and maintained at the live performance venue, during the period of the live performance; or | | (c) | other measures in respect of that live performance that satisfy the objectives and performance requirements in these Regulations for preventing, protecting against, delaying or otherwise controlling the incidence or transmission of COVID‑19 in Singapore, |
| so as to mitigate the significant risks to the incidence and transmission of COVID‑19 in the community in Singapore associated with the matter approved, waived or specified, which may include more stringent requirements than in these Regulations. |
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9.—(1) In this Part —“live performance hirer” means a person who engages or contracts any performer or person staging a live performance for the purpose of a live performance, but excludes a person who merely —| (a) | provides or agrees to seek or find work opportunities for a performer; | | (b) | negotiates the terms or an agreement for a live performance by the performer; or | | (c) | arranges for publicity attendances and related publicity responsibilities of such a performer; |
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“live performance venue” means any of the following premises to which the public or any class of the public has access (gratuitously or otherwise):| (a) | a theatre, a music hall, a concert hall, an auditorium or a cinema; | | (b) | a room in which a live performance is or is to be staged, provided the room is not within a place where a retail liquor business is for the time being carried on; | | (c) | any place mentioned in paragraph 1(2) where a live performance may be approved under paragraph 8(1) to take place; |
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“stage area”, for a live performance —| (a) | means such area within the live performance venue as is designed to be used by performers in a live performance to perform on or in; and | | (b) | includes the backstage, a dressing room, a projection or lighting suite, a sound booth, an orchestra pit or a flying scenery or other similar theatrical prop or infrastructure. |
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| (2) For the purposes of this Part, a live performance is staged by the person who makes the arrangements necessary for the performance (including elements of the performance not consisting of sounds) to take place. |
| (3) For the purposes of this Part, a rehearsal of a live performance is treated as a live performance even though no audience is present during the performance, and a reference to a live performance includes a rehearsal thereof unless otherwise provided. |
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