15.—(1) Subject to paragraph (1A), an occupier of a live performance venue where a live performance is taking place or is to take place must take all reasonably practicable measures in respect of audience members attending the live performance as follows:
(a)
to establish one or more segregation zones in the audience area, with each zone providing for not more than 100 such individuals to be seated or a higher number specified by the approving authority under regulation 19(1) in relation to the particular live performance;
[S 617/2021 wef 19/08/2021]
[S 859/2021 wef 10/11/2021]
(b)
to allocate every audience member into the respective segregation zones;
(c)
to ensure that any audience member who is allocated to a segregation zone does not, during the live performance, enter another segregation zone at that same live performance;
(d)
to establish and apply procedures or controls so as —
(i)
to ensure that an audience member allocated to a segregation zone does not physically interact with another audience member allocated to another segregation zone when they enter or leave each other’s allocated segregation zone; and
(ii)
to minimise the transmission of COVID‑19 between audience members in different segregation zones.
[S 276/2021 wef 24/04/2021]
(1A) Instead of paragraph (1), an occupier of a live performance venue where a live performance is taking place or is to take place must take all reasonably practicable measures as follows in respect of audience members attending the live performance:
(a)
establish and apply specially relating to the audience area in the live performance venue either —
(i)
a digital contact tracing system with appropriate procedures and controls that record proximity information about every audience member who enters or remains in the audience area during the period of the live performance; or
(ii)
appropriate procedures and controls that allocate every audience member a fixed seat in the audience area and record that information, and ensure that each audience member who is allocated to a seat does not, during the period of the live performance, change his or her seat;
(b)
ensure that every audience member is seated during the period of the live performance;
(c)
ensure that every audience member wears a mask during the period of the live performance;
(d)
assist and cooperate with the person staging the live performance to ensure no audience participation during the period of the live performance.
[S 276/2021 wef 24/04/2021]
(2) This regulation does not apply in relation to a rehearsal of a live performance.