Division 2 — Customer facing business events
Customer facing business events
15D.  This Division applies to a business event that is not a major business event and organised by or on behalf of a permitted enterprise other than a business event described in regulation 15A, and includes a business event that is for a routine supply or provision of goods or services to a consumer or otherwise at any premises or a vessel where the business, undertaking or work connected with the supply or provision of those goods or services is ordinarily carried out.
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Requirements for occupier of business event venue
15E.—(1)  An occupier of a venue where a business event in regulation 15D takes place, or is to take place, must take all reasonably practicable measures —
(a)to comply with the following during the crowd management period of the business event and with respect to the venue where the business event takes place or is to take place:
(i)the general physical distancing requirement in regulation 4(1A) for the business event;
(ii)the contact-tracing requirement;
(iii)the basic entry controls;
(iv)the participant capacity requirement in regulation 5(3) for the business event;
(v)the cleaning requirement; and
(b)to minimise any physical interaction during the crowd management period of the business event, between any participant at the business event and any non-participant within the venue where the business event takes place or is to take place.
(2)  In addition to paragraph (1), where any defined activity is or is to be engaged in during the business event in regulation 15D, an occupier of a venue where the business event takes place, or is to take place, must —
(a)establish and maintain, during the crowd management period of the business event, enhanced entry controls with respect to the business event; and
(b)take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that participants in the venue are allotted and remain in cohorts during the crowd management period of the business event, as if a dining-in activity cohort, a personalised service cohort or a sporting activity cohort, as the case may be.
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Requirements for organiser of business event
15F.—(1)  An organiser of a business event in regulation 15D must take all reasonably practicable measures —
(a)to ensure that during the crowd management period of the business event, none of the following is engaged in or provided by any one in the venue where the business event takes place or is to take place:
(i)singing;
(ii)playing of a wind musical instrument;
(b)to ensure that no verbal exhortations 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, are made during the business event;
(c)to comply with the prevailing rule requirement (if applicable) during the crowd management period of the business event and with respect to the venue where the business event takes place or is to take place, subject to the participant capacity requirement in regulation 5(3) for the business event; and
(d)to ensure that any live performance at the business event which is not prohibited under sub-paragraph (a) —
(i)does not go beyond what is incidental only; and
(ii)is not of a substantial nature,
having regard to the occasion or purpose of the business event.
(2)  In addition, an organiser of a business event must take all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that at all times during the crowd management period of the business event, every participant and non-participant in the venue where the business event is taking place are each wearing a mask if the participant or non-participant (as the case may be) is not authorised under any Control Order to not wear a mask or he or she does not have a reasonable excuse to be unmasked.
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