The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020

Requirement to close premises and businesses

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16.—(1) A person responsible for carrying on a restricted business, or providing a restricted service, must cease to carry on that business or provide that service.

(2) Where a restricted business or restricted service forms, or is provided as, part of a larger business and that larger business is not itself a restricted business, the person responsible for carrying on the larger business complies with the requirement in paragraph (1) by closing down the restricted business or by ceasing to provide the restricted service.

(3) The requirement in paragraph (1)—

(a)does not apply to any facilities provided in criminal justice accommodation, and

(b)is subject to the exceptions in regulation 17(6) and (8).

(4) In this regulation “restricted business” and “restricted service” means a business or service which—

(a)is of a kind specified in Part 2 of the Schedule, or

(b)is carried on from, or provided at, premises of a kind specified in Part 2 of the Schedule.