The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

Restrictions on non-essential retail businesses

4.—(1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) apply to a retail business which—

(a) offers goods for sale or hire or provides a service, and

(b) is not wholly or mainly a retail business listed in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 or a retail business referred to in paragraph (4).

(2) A retail business referred to in paragraph (1)—

(a) must cease,

(b) the premises from which the business is carried on must close, and

(c) no person must enter those premises.

(3) But a retail business referred to in paragraph (1) may—

(a) deliver goods or services to a person who has made a prior request for, or ordered, them by on-line communication, telephone, text or electronic messaging or post;

(b) in the case of a car dealership which is a Motability dealer, permit a customer (and a carer who accompanies the customer) to collect a Motability vehicle following an on-line application;

(c) keep the premises necessary for the purposes referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) open (provided no customer enters any building).

(4) A retail business selling baby equipment, clothing, footwear or electrical goods, or which is a garden centre or a plant nursery—

(a) must close, but

(b) may allow a customer to collect goods from its premises (provided no customer enters any building), where that customer has, in advance of their collection—

(i) requested or ordered the goods by on-line communication, telephone, text or electronic messaging or post and,

(ii) paid for them.