| RETAIL FOOD AND DRINKS ESTABLISHMENT |
1.—(1) A permitted enterprise carrying on a retail food and drinks business —| (a) | must not sell or supply, or cause or allow to be sold or supplied, at its permitted premises that is a retail food and drinks establishment any food or drink for immediate consumption on those premises; and | | (b) | must not allow any customer or visitor to consume any food or drink on those premises, |
| if the customer or visitor does not have a cleared status and is not an uncleared junior. |
[S 773/2021 wef 13/10/2021] (2) To avoid doubt, this paragraph does not prohibit the entry into, and the sale or supply of any food or drink at, a retail food and drinks establishment by a customer or visitor who does not have a cleared status if he or she —| (a) | collects food or drink from the retail food and drinks establishment, being food or drink that has been pre-ordered by telephone (including orders by text message), through a website, or otherwise by online communication; or | | (b) | collects the food or drink in a vehicle, and to whom the food or drink is passed without the purchaser or any other individual leaving the vehicle. |
[S 773/2021 wef 13/10/2021] |
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2. Despite regulation 10B(1)(k)(i) and (n), but subject to regulation 6, the permitted enterprise carrying on a retail food and drinks business must take, or cause to be taken, all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that, in respect of its permitted premises which is a retail food and drinks establishment —| (a) | any customer or visitor without a cleared status does not enter or remain within the permitted premises to consume any food or drink in those premises unless the customer or visitor is an uncleared junior; [S 773/2021 wef 13/10/2021] | | (b) | every customer or visitor who consumes or intends to consume within those premises any food or drink supplied or provided at those premises, is doing so alone, or is allocated into and remains part of a dining-in activity cohort applicable to the retail food and drinks establishment; and | | (c) | there is a distance of at least one metre between every member of every such dining-in activity cohort within those permitted premises from any of the following who consume or intend to consume, within those premises, any food or drink supplied or provided at those premises:| (i) | any other lone customer or visitor who is not part of any dining-in activity cohort applicable to the retail food and drinks establishment; | | (ii) | any other customer or visitor who is a member of another dining-in activity cohort applicable to the retail food and drinks establishment. |
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2A. Where —| (a) | any permitted premises of a permitted enterprise that is a retail food and drinks establishment adjoin or abut onto the permitted premises of another permitted enterprise —| (i) | which is another retail food and drinks establishment; or | | (ii) | where a retail liquor business is carried on; and |
| | (b) | the common boundary between those premises is —| (i) | demarcated by plants or other vegetative barrier (potted or otherwise), a stanchion with a barrier rope or tape, a wire fence, a divider, furniture, or any other thing which is neither a party wall nor a floor-to-ceiling, non-porous partition; or | | (ii) | not demarcated in any way with any thing, such as a common boundary in an outdoor dining space or a five-foot way or footpath, |
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| each permitted enterprise must take, or cause to be taken, all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that no customer or visitor who consumes or intends to consume within its respective permitted premises any food or drink, is allocated a seat or a standing space in its respective permitted premises which is within 0.5 metres of the common boundary. |
[S 680/2021 wef 08/09/2021] |
| 3. The permitted enterprise must not provide on its permitted premises that is a retail food and drinks establishment any food or drinks (or both) for consumption by way of a self-service buffet. |
4.—(1) The permitted enterprise must, in respect of its permitted premises that is a retail food and drinks establishment, cordon off and prevent the use of any part of the retail food and drinks establishment which is a part designed for the principal purpose of serving liquor for immediate consumption there (commonly called a bar), unless drinks (which may include liquor) and cooked food are served, or allowed to be served, to any customer for consumption at the bar.(2) In sub-paragraph (1), “cooked food” does not include pre-packed or ready-to-eat food that —| (a) | does not necessarily require any further preparation or handling before consumption; and | | (b) | can be stored at room or ambient temperature before its packaging is opened and, after the packaging is opened, may not require refrigeration. |
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5. Immediately after 10.30 p.m. every day a retail food and drinks establishment is open for business, the permitted enterprise of that retail food and drinks establishment must stop —| (a) | the sale and serving of liquor for consumption on the retail food and drinks establishment; and | | (b) | the consumption of liquor on the retail food and drinks establishment, |
| 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 that retail food and drinks establishment. |
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6. Subject to paragraph 7, the permitted enterprise must not provide, or allow, any of the following to occur within its permitted premises that is a retail food and drinks establishment when it is open for business:| (a) | any live performance, exhibition or display of gymnastics or acrobatics, lecture, talk or address, whether by the customers or otherwise; | | (b) | any display or exhibition (whether on a television or other screen) to customers in or around the retail food and drinks establishment of —| (i) | any film or video recording; | | (ii) | any television programme received from a free-to-air broadcasting service (such as live sports events or news) or a subscription nationwide television service; or | | (iii) | any live performance, exhibition or display of gymnastics or acrobatics, lecture, talk or address happening elsewhere (whether in or outside Singapore and whether in a public or private place), using real-time transmission of the live performance, exhibition or display, lecture, talk or address; |
| | (c) | any playing of music, singing, lecture, talk or address or any other content (whether or not pre-recorded) which is likely to be audible to customers in or around the retail food and drinks establishment; | | (d) | any playing of billiards, pool or other like games, or electronic or mechanical amusement devices, such as pinball machines, computer or video games and the like, for customers to play; | | (e) | any conduct of an organised competition of games of skill or chance; | | (f) | any verbal exhortation of goodwill or honour or about any other matter (whether or not auspicious or propitious) carried out by a customer or otherwise, accompanied by a ritual (like toasting) in which a drink or any food is offered, taken or handled. | | A toast in acclamation to an individual at a dinner celebrating the individual’s birthday. |
| | Emphatic uttering of auspicious sayings during the traditional Chinese ritual known as Lo-Hei is not allowed. |
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7.—(1) However, paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 do not apply where a wedding connected with the celebration of a marriage takes place in any permitted premises that is a retail food and drinks establishment.(2) Where a wedding connected with the celebration of a marriage takes place in any permitted premises that is a retail food and drinks establishment, the permitted enterprise occupying the food and drinks establishment must take (or cause to be taken) all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that during the wedding —| (a) | regulation 8 is complied with; | | (b) | any part of the retail food and drinks establishment which is a part designed for the principal purpose of serving liquor for immediate consumption there (commonly called a bar) is cordoned off and prevented from use unless drinks (which may include liquor) and cooked food are served, or allowed to be served, to any customer for consumption at the bar; | | (c) | the following stop immediately after 10.30 p.m., 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 that retail food and drinks establishment:| (i) | the sale and serving of liquor for consumption on the retail food and drinks establishment; | | (ii) | the consumption of liquor on the retail food and drinks establishment; |
| | (d) | any food or drinks (or both) for consumption on the retail food and drinks establishment are not provided by way of a buffet; | | (e) | no organised competition of games of skill or chance is conducted on the retail food and drinks establishment; | | (f) | the playing of billiards, pool or other like games, or of electronic or mechanical amusement devices (such as pinball machines, computer or video games and the like) does not take place on the retail food and drinks establishment; | | (g) | any verbal exhortation of goodwill or honour or about any other matter (whether or not auspicious or propitious) carried out by a customer or otherwise, accompanied by a ritual (like toasting) in which a drink or any food is offered, taken or handled, does not take place on the retail food and drinks establishment; | | (h) | no live performance, exhibition or display of gymnastics or acrobatics, lecture, talk or address (whether by the customers or otherwise) takes place on the retail food and drinks establishment except a speech by any of the following who are within the retail food and drinks establishment:| (i) | a guest of the wedding; | | (ii) | a party to the marriage; | | (iii) | a celebrant or other person at work in relation to the wedding; |
| | (i) | any display or exhibition (whether on a television or other screen) to customers in or around the retail food and drinks establishment is limited to —| (i) | a display or an exhibition (whether on a television or other screen) of any film or video recording that is about or relating to the marriage or any party to the marriage; or | | (ii) | a speech using real-time transmission that is about or relating to the marriage or any party to the marriage, |
| so long as it is only visible and audible mainly by guests of the wedding who are within the retail food and drinks establishment; and |
| | (j) | any playing of music, singing, lecture, talk or address or any other content (whether or not pre-recorded) is limited to the playing of pre-recorded music, pre-recorded singing, a pre-recorded lecture, talk or address or any other pre-recorded content that —| (i) | is about or relating to the marriage or any party to the marriage; and | | (ii) | is only audible mainly by guests of the wedding who are within the retail food and drinks establishment. |
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(3) In sub-paragraph (2)(b), “cooked food” does not include pre-packed or ready-to-eat food that —| (a) | does not necessarily require any further preparation or handling before consumption; and | | (b) | can be stored at room or ambient temperature before its packaging is opened and, after the packaging is opened, may not require refrigeration. |
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| 8. To avoid doubt, a permitted enterprise carrying on a retail food and drinks business is not prohibited from allowing a solemnization of a marriage to be held on its permitted premises that is a retail food and drinks establishment where held in accordance with regulation 7A. [S 584/2021 wef 10/08/2021] |
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