Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2020

Restrictions on certain other businesses and services during the emergency period6.

(1)

A person responsible for carrying on a business, or providing a service, listed in Part 4 of Schedule 1 must, during the emergency period—

(a)

take all reasonable measures to ensure that a distance of 2 metres is maintained between any persons on the business premises (except between two members of the same household, or a carer and the person assisted by the carer),

(b)

take all reasonable measures to ensure that persons are only admitted to the business premises in sufficiently small numbers to make it possible to maintain that distance, and

(c)

take all reasonable measures to ensure that a distance of 2 metres is maintained between persons waiting to enter the business premises (except between two members of the same household, or a carer and the person assisted by the carer).

(2)

A person responsible for carrying on a business, not listed in Part 4 of Schedule 1, of offering goods for sale or for hire in a shop must, during the emergency period—

(a)

cease to carry on that business except by making deliveries, or otherwise providing services in response to orders or enquiries received—

(i)

through a website, or otherwise by on-line communication,

(ii)

by telephone, including orders by text message, or

(iii)

by post;

(b)

close any premises which are not required to carry out the business or provide services as permitted by sub-paragraph (a);

(c)

cease to admit any person to the premises who is not required to carry on the business or provide services as permitted by sub-paragraph (a).

(3)

If a business to which paragraph (2) applies (“business A”) forms part of a larger business (“business B”), the person responsible for carrying on business B complies with the requirement in paragraph (2) if it ceases to carry on business A.