The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Very High) (England) Regulations 2020

Exceptions

18.—(1) Paragraph 17(1) does not prevent the use of—

(a) any premises used for a restricted business or service to host blood donation sessions;

(b) facilities for training by elite sportspersons, including indoor gyms, fitness studios and indoor sports facilities;

(c) indoor fitness and dance studios by professional dancers and choreographers;

(d) indoor gyms, fitness studios and indoor sports facilities for supervised activities for children, or by persons who have a disability and who are not elite sportspersons to take part in any sport or other fitness related activity.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

(a) “elite sportsperson” has the meaning given in paragraph 12(10);

(b) a person is a professional dancer or choreographer if that person derives their living from dance, or from choreographing dance, as the case may be;

(c) a person who has a disability has the meaning given in paragraph 11(4).

(3) Paragraph 17(1) does not prevent a person responsible for carrying on a restricted business or providing a restricted service (“the closed business”), from—

(a) carrying on a business of offering goods for sale or for hire in a shop which is separate from the premises used for the closed business,

(b) carrying on a business of offering goods for sale or for hire by making deliveries or otherwise providing services in response to orders received—

(i) through a website, or otherwise by on-line communication,

(ii) by telephone, including orders by text message, or

(iii) by post.