Division 3 — Live performance
Prohibited live performances
26.  An organiser of a religious gathering involving a live performance in the venue where the religious gathering takes place must take, or cause to be taken, all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that none of the following performances take place in the presence of an audience of worshippers in that venue:
(a)a circus entertainment;
(b)a game show or quiz show;
(c)a variety act or similar presentation or show.
Distance between performers and worshippers
27.  An organiser of a religious gathering involving a live performance must take, or cause to be taken, all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that, at all times when the live performance is taking place, every worshipper attending the religious gathering is at least 3 metres away from any edge of the stage area where the live performance is taking place.
Maximum number of performers
28.  An organiser of a religious gathering involving a live performance must take, or cause to be taken, all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that, at all times when the live performance is taking place, there are within the stage area on or in which the live performance takes place, in total not more than 50 individuals who are either performers or crew or a combination of performers and crew.
[S 619/2021 wef 19/08/2021]
Live performance requiring cleared performers and crew
28A.—(1)  An organiser of a religious gathering involving a live performance which is not a rehearsal must not organise or allow 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)[Deleted by S 619/2021 wef 19/08/2021]
(b)every performer playing a wind musical instrument or singing (whether or not when wearing a mask) meets one of the following conditions:
(i)he or she has at all times during the period of the live performance, a cleared status (limited) that is current under the Infectious Diseases (Mass Gathering Testing for Coronavirus Disease 2019) Regulations 2021;
(ii)he or she has a cleared status (general) that is current under the Infectious Diseases (Mass Gathering Testing for Coronavirus Disease 2019) Regulations 2021 and, within the period of 24 hours before the end of the period of the live performance —
(A)he or she undergoes an approved test or approved tests; and
(B)the individual’s test result is treated under those Regulations either as negative for SARS-CoV-2 or an atypical finding for SARS-CoV-2; and
(c)every other performer, and every crew, has a cleared status at all times during the period of the live performance.
(2)  An organiser of a religious gathering involving a live performance must not organise or allow 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.
[S 589/2021 wef 10/08/2021]
Physical distancing between performers
29.—(1)  An organiser of a religious gathering involving a live performance must take, or cause to be taken, all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that, at all times during the period of the live performance, every performer in the live performance is —
(a)at least one metre away from any other performer in the live performance.
[S 541/2021 wef 22/07/2021]
(b)[Deleted by S 541/2021 wef 22/07/2021]
(1A)  However, and without limiting regulation 28A, where any performer in the 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 the firstmentioned performer is at all times during the period of the live performance at least 2 metres away from any other performer in the live performance.
[S 589/2021 wef 10/08/2021]
(2)  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.
Singing and wind musical instrument performers
30.  Without limiting regulation 28A, an organiser of a religious gathering involving 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;
[S 619/2021 wef 19/08/2021]
(b)not more than 20 performers who perform by playing a wind musical instrument, and no other performer is performing by singing; or
[S 619/2021 wef 19/08/2021]
(c)not more than 20 performers, some of whom perform by singing and others by playing a wind musical instrument.
[S 619/2021 wef 19/08/2021]
[S 589/2021 wef 10/08/2021]
Unmasking allowed for performers
31.—(1)  An organiser of a religious gathering at a venue involving a live performance must take, or cause to be taken, all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that at all times during the period of the live performance —
(a)there are on or in the stage area, not more than 20 performers who are unmasked because they are performing in the live performance; and
[S 619/2021 wef 19/08/2021]
(b)every crew, and every other performer in the live performance, in the venue are each wearing a mask.
[S 589/2021 wef 10/08/2021]
(2)  Paragraph (1)(b) does not prevent a crew or performer to be unmasked where he or she has a reasonable excuse to be then unmasked.
[S 541/2021 wef 22/07/2021]
[S 589/2021 wef 10/08/2021]
(3)  This regulation applies without limiting regulation 30 but is subject to regulation 22.
[S 589/2021 wef 10/08/2021]
[S 541/2021 wef 22/07/2021]
[S 589/2021 wef 10/08/2021]
No food or drink to be consumed in stage area
32.  An organiser of a religious gathering involving a live performance must take, or cause to be taken, all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that no food or drink is consumed by any individual within the stage area at any time during the period of the live performance.
Crew and performer duties
33.—(1)  During the period of a religious gathering involving a live performance, a crew and a performer in a live performance must not be unmasked when he or she is on or in the stage area and, for a performer, when not engaged in performing in the live performance.
[S 541/2021 wef 22/07/2021]
[S 589/2021 wef 10/08/2021]
(2)  Paragraph (1) does not apply where the crew or performer in a live performance would otherwise be permitted under these Regulations to not wear a mask.
[S 589/2021 wef 10/08/2021]
(3)  A performer in a live performance at a religious gathering in a venue must, when performing, remain as far as practicable at least 3 metres away from any worshipper attending that religious gathering when measured from any edge of the stage area where the live performance takes place.