8.—(1) A person staging a live performance must take all reasonably practicable measures to ensure that —
(a)
every performer in the live performance is —
(i)
performing alone; or
(ii)
allocated into and remains part of a cohort not exceeding 2 performers (called in this regulation a performing activity cohort), all the members of which must either be standing or seated generally in a fixed position throughout the period of the live performance; and
(b)
at all times during the period of the live performance there is a distance of at least one metre between every member of every such performing activity cohort from any of the following:
(i)
any other lone performer who is not part of any performing activity cohort in the live performance;
(ii)
any other performer who is a member of another performing activity cohort in the live performance.
[S 859/2021 wef 10/11/2021]
(1A) However, and without limiting regulation 7A, where any performer in a 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 at all times during the period of the live performance —
(c)
where the firstmentioned performer is performing alone — there is a distance of at least 2 metres between the firstmentioned performer from any of the following:
(i)
any other lone performer who is not part of any performing activity cohort in the live performance;
(ii)
any other performer who is a member of another performing activity cohort in the live performance; or
(d)
where the firstmentioned performer is a member of a performing activity cohort — there is a distance of at least 2 metres between every member of that performing activity cohort from any of the following:
(i)
any other lone performer who is not part of any performing activity cohort in the live performance;
(ii)
any other performer who is a member of another performing activity cohort in the live performance.
[S 859/2021 wef 10/11/2021]
(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.