The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) Regulations 2020

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Prohibition on organising eventsE+W

4.—[F1[F2(1) No person may, without a reasonable excuse, be involved in organising an event [F3held to any extent indoors.]]

(1A) For the purposes of this paragraph, a person working, or providing voluntary services, in relation to the holding of an event is not to be treated as attending the event.]

[F4(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a person involved in organising—

(a)an event held at a private dwelling at which people do not participate in a gathering in contravention of [F5regulation 37(2)];

(b)an event authorised by the Welsh Ministers under paragraph 5;

(c)a solemnisation of a marriage, formation of a civil partnership or an alternative wedding ceremony;

(d)a funeral;

(e)[F6a gathering at regulated premises], to—

(i)celebrate a solemnisation of a marriage, formation of a civil partnership or alternative wedding ceremony that took place on or after [F71 December 2021];

(ii)celebrate the life of a deceased person whose funeral is held on or after [F81 December 2021];

(f)a regulated gathering that takes place to any extent indoors and at which—

(i)no more than 30 people are in attendance, F9... and

(ii)no alcohol is consumed;

F10(g). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(h)a regulated gathering F11... for the development or well-being of children (including sports, music and other recreational activities such as those provided for children outside of school hours and during school holidays).

[F12(i)an event that is held at regulated premises, other than at holiday or travel accommodation, and at which—

(i)no more than 6 people are in attendance, or

(ii)all of the people in attendance are members of the same household;

(j)an event that is any of the following, where it is held in premises ordinarily used for that purpose—

(i)the showing of a film,

(ii)an entertainment performance where no more than 200 people are in attendance F13...,

(iii)a market, or

(iv)a religious service;

(k)an elite sporting event at which the only people present are elite athletes and persons working or providing voluntary services for the event;

F14(l). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F15(m). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]]

[F16(2A) In determining, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), the number of persons in attendance at an event, no account is to be taken of—