COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) (Amendment No. 10) Regulations 2020

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 03 Jul 2020

No. S 542

COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020

(ACT 14 OF 2020)

COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures)
(Control Order) (Amendment No. 10)
Regulations 2020

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 34(1) of the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020, the Minister for Health makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) (Amendment No. 10) Regulations 2020 and come into operation on 4 July 2020.

Amendment of regulation 13

2. Regulation 13(3) of the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 254/2020) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately before the definition of “beauty therapy”, the following definition:

“ “amusement centre” means a premises or place used principally for playing —

(a)	billiards, pool or other like games;
(b)	electronic or mechanical amusement devices, such as pinball machines, computer or video games and the like; or
(c)	organised games or contests such as paintball, axe throwing, dart throwing or other like activities between individuals,

whether or not being part of a hotel, club or retail shopping centre, and whether or not any retail food and drinks business is also carried on at the premises or place;”;

(b)

by deleting the words “retail food and drinks establishment” wherever they appear in the definition of “retail food and drinks business” and substituting in each case the words “premises or place”;

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the words “the premises” in paragraph (a) of the definition of “retail food and drinks business”, the words “or place”;

(d)

by deleting the words “at which a retail food and drinks business is carried out, whether or not the premises” in the definition of “retail food and drinks establishment” and substituting the words “the principal purpose of which is to carry on a retail food and drinks business, whether or not the premises or place”; and

(e)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “retail food and drinks establishment”, the following definition:

“ “sale”, in relation to food or drinks for human consumption, includes supplying food or drinks or both (whether or not for consideration) in the course of providing other services;”.

Amendment of First Schedule

3. The First Schedule to the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020 is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “Clause 2.9.2(b)” in paragraph 6(a) of Part 1 and substituting the words “Clause 9.3.3(b)”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “customers to play” in paragraph 3(d) of Part 3, the words “if the permitted premises is not also an amusement centre”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph 1 of Part 4, the following paragraphs:

“2.—(1) A permitted enterprise that operates an amusement centre in the course of business must, in respect of its permitted premises that is an amusement centre —

(a)	take all reasonable steps to ensure that the total number of individuals within the permitted premises does not, at any time, exceed the prescribed threshold for the premises;
(b)	take all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that every customer or visitor taking part in an organised game or contest of paintball on the premises maintains an appropriately longer distance from another customer or visitor within the premises; and
(c)	take all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that any cue stick or other like article used in playing billiards or pool on the premises is not shared among or used by more than one customer, visitor or permitted enterprise worker (or any of them in combination) in those premises.

(2) The prescribed threshold for any permitted premises that is an amusement centre is —

(a)

where used for individuals to play billiards or pool or to take part in an organised game or contest of paintball, the lower of the following:

(i)	50;
(ii)	25% of the occupant load of those premises as specified in the last approval under section 23 of the Fire Safety Act (Cap. 109A), rounded up to the nearest whole number; or

(b)

in all other cases, the number (rounded up to the nearest whole number) resulting from dividing by 10, the gross floor area of those premises.

3. Immediately after 10.30 p.m. every day, a permitted enterprise that operates an amusement centre in the course of business must stop —

(a)	the sale and serving of liquor for consumption on the premises; and
(b)	the consumption of liquor on the premises,

regardless of the trading hours specified in any licence granted under the Liquor Control (Supply and Consumption) Act 2015 or authorised under that Act in relation to the premises.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 261/2020; S 262/2020; S 273/2020; S 274/2020; S 319/2020; S 357/2020; S 359/2020; S 428/2020; S 473/2020]

Made on 3 July 2020.

NG HOW YUE

Permanent Secretary
(Health Development),
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

[AG/LEGIS/SL/65C/2020/2 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 34(4) of the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020).

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