Requirements for weddings
8.—(1)  An organiser of a wedding taking place in any room or place must take (or cause to be taken) all reasonably practicable steps —
(a)to ensure that the room or place is not —
(i)in a place of residence;
(ii)in a place at which a retail liquor business is for the time being carried on; or
(iii)on board a vessel that is not a pleasure craft;
(b)to establish and apply appropriate procedures and controls (jointly with another or otherwise) during the wedding that enable or facilitate contact tracing of —
(i)every guest of the wedding who enters the room or place; and
(ii)every permitted enterprise (and its permitted enterprise workers) engaged in providing at the room or place authorised services for celebration arrangements made in connection with the wedding;
(c)where there are more than 48 guests attending the wedding —
(i)to establish one or more segregation zones in the room or place, with each zone providing for not more than 50 individuals (if they are guests or parties to the marriage) to be seated within the segregation zone; or
(ii)to establish an attendance time for each guest of the wedding (excluding a member of the wedding special cohort) to attend in person at the wedding, with each attendance time providing for not more than 50 individuals (if they are guests or parties to the marriage) to attend the wedding during that time;
(d)to allocate guests of the wedding into the respective segregation zones or attendance times (where applicable) and then into either of the following cohorts, and to arrange for them to be seated accordingly:
(i)the wedding special cohort at the wedding;
(ii)a cohort of 5 or fewer guests as if each were a dining-in activity cohort for a retail food and drinks establishment that is not a community eating place;
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(e)to ensure that —
(i)any guest of the wedding (even if a member of the wedding special cohort) who is allocated a seat in a segregation zone (where applicable) does not, during the wedding, enter another segregation zone at that same wedding; and
(ii)any guest of the wedding who is allocated to attend the wedding during an attendance time does not attend the wedding at a different time (whether earlier or later) except to comply with a procedure or control for the purposes of sub-paragraph (f)(iii);
(f)to establish and apply procedures or controls so as —
(i)to ensure that a guest allocated a seat in a segregation zone does not physically interact with another guest allocated a seat in another segregation zone when the guests enter or leave each guest’s allocated segregation zone;
(ii)to minimise the transmission of COVID-19 between guests in different segregation zones;
(iii)to prevent any guest of the wedding who is allocated to attend the wedding during an attendance time from entering the room or place where the wedding is held unless 30 minutes or more have lapsed after all guests allocated to the earlier attendance time have left the room or place; and
(iv)to cause or enable any area, furniture, fittings, device, article or thing within the room or place that is used by guests allocated to different attendance times, or is used by guests to move through the room or place, to be cleaned and disinfected before the start of each attendance time, so as to minimise the transmission of COVID-19 from the use of the same area, furniture, fittings, device, article or thing by guests attending the wedding at different attendance times;
(g)to minimise physical interaction during the wedding between guests of the wedding unless they are —
(i)all from the same wedding special cohort at the wedding; or
(ii)all from the same cohort allocated under sub-paragraph (d)(ii);
(h) to comply with the enhanced entry controls;
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(ha)to not permit to be present in the room or place a number of uncleared juniors which is more than 20% of the number of guests invited (rounded down to the nearest whole number);
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(i)to ensure that the composition of guests attending the wedding does not change during the wedding;
(j)to ensure that the gathering of individuals attending the wedding in the room or place does not during the wedding exceed the maximum permissible group size for the wedding in that room or place;
(k)to ensure that regulations 10B(1)(k) and 12 are complied with during the wedding as if —
(i)the room or place were permitted premises, every guest attending the wedding were a customer and the organiser were a permitted enterprise;
(ii)the reference to 5 or fewer individuals in regulation 10B(1)(k) were a reference to the wedding special cohort and the cohort allocated under sub-paragraph (d), respectively; and
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(iii)the reference to 5 individuals in regulation 12(1)(a)(ii) were a reference to the wedding special cohort and the cohort allocated under sub-paragraph (d), respectively;
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(l)to ensure that none of the following activities are engaged in during the wedding, by the guests or otherwise:
(i)any variety act or performance of music, singing or dancing;
(ii)any organised competition of games of skill or chance;
(iii)any verbal exhortation of goodwill or honour or about any other matter (whether or not auspicious or propitious) accompanied by a ritual (like toasting) in which a drink or any food is offered, taken or handled;
 
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A toast in acclamation to the bride and groom at a wedding reception or wedding dinner is not allowed.
(m)to stop the serving of liquor for consumption, and the consumption of liquor, by any individual in the room or place after 10.30 p.m.; and
(n)to ensure that a party to the marriage maintains an appropriate longer distance than one metre from any guest, and any other individual, in the room or place when the bride or groom is, with reasonable excuse, not wearing a mask and face shield during the wedding.
(2)  An organiser of a wedding taking place in any room or place must take (or cause to be taken) all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that any food or drinks (or both) for consumption at the wedding are not provided by way of a buffet.
(3)  An individual who is a guest at a wedding taking place in any room or place must, during the wedding, minimise physical interaction with any other guest at the same wedding —
(a)who is not in the wedding special cohort at the wedding, if the individual is allocated under paragraph (1)(d)(i) to the wedding special cohort; or
(b)who is not in the same cohort that the individual is allocated to under paragraph (1)(d)(ii).
(4)  An individual who is a guest at a wedding and has been allocated a seat in a segregation zone under paragraph (1)(d) must not enter any other segregation zone at the same wedding.
(5)  An individual who is a guest at a wedding and has been allocated an attendance time for the wedding established under paragraph (1)(c)(ii) must not enter the room or place where the wedding is held at any other time except to comply with a procedure or control for the purposes of paragraph (1)(f)(iii).
(6)  To avoid doubt —
(a)an individual does not attend a wedding connected with the celebration of a marriage by reason only of being —
(i)engaged to organise the wedding, or to provide authorised services for the conduct of proceedings in the solemnization of the marriage or for celebration arrangements made in connection with the wedding; or
(ii)employed or engaged by a person in sub-paragraph (i) and at work in relation to the solemnization or wedding; and
(b)this regulation does not derogate from any other requirements in these Regulations applicable to an organiser who is a permitted enterprise unless expressly stated.
(7)  In this regulation, “room or place” includes a room or place on board a pleasure craft.
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