The Financial Assistance (Coronavirus: Hospitality) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

Amendments to the Coronavirus Financial Assistance Scheme 2022

2.  In the Schedule to the Financial Assistance (Coronavirus) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022—

(a) in the definition of “hospitality sector”—

(i) at the end of sub-paragraph (c), omit, “and”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (d), for “;” substitute, “, and”;

(iii) after sub-paragraph (d) add, “(e) hotels, that is to say the premises of any establishment allocated a certificate under Article 13 of the Tourism (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(1) in relation to the category of tourist establishment mentioned in Article 12(1)(a) of that Order;”;

(b) after the definition of “the Rates Order” add—

““relevant activity business” means a business carried on as an inflatable park, a soft play business (that is to say a business wholly or mainly used for the purposes of the provision of soft play facilities) or a trampoline park, that operates a café facility as part of that business and that—

(a)

has previously received support under the schemes provided by the Financial Assistance (Coronavirus) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020(2) or The Financial Assistance (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020(3); or

(b)

would have been eligible for support under the schemes referred to in sub-paragraph (a) had an application been made to those schemes on the basis of the circumstances pertaining to that business as at 20th December 2021;”;

(c) after the definition of “relevant business” add—

““relevant sports club facility” means a bar or restaurant which is—

(a)

wholly occupied by a sports club which has received less than £50,000 from the Sports Sustainability Fund as delivered by Sport Northern Ireland on behalf of the Department for Communities, and

(b)

licensed under Article 5(1)(a) or (e) of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;”;

(d) in paragraph 3

(i) at the end of sub-paragraph (a), omit “or”;

(ii) after sub-paragraph (b) add—

“(c) the occupier of a relevant sports club facility, or;

(d) the occupier of a relevant activity business.”

(1)

S.I. 1992/235 (N.I. 3)

(2)

S.R. 2020 No. 221

(3)

S.R. 2020 No. 230 as amended by S.R. 2020 No. 262, S.R. 2020 No. 262, S.R. 2020 No. 354, and S.R. 2021 No. 94