Covid-19
(Workplace Restrictions) (Jersey) Order 2020
1 Declaration of start
and end of restriction period
A restriction period –
(a) starts on the coming into
force of this Order; and
(b) ends at the end of Wednesday
3rd June 2020.
2 Closure of certain
workplaces
(1) The Minister directs that the following workplaces
must be closed –
(a) amusement centres;
(b) art galleries, libraries
and museums;
(c) workplaces that are used
for the purpose of –
(i) spas, nail salons,
beauty salons, waxing salons, tanning salons or hair laser removal,
(ii) tattoo or piercing
parlours or massage parlours, or
(iii) providing haircuts, hair
styling or the professional application of make up;
(d) entertainment facilities;
(e) indoor recreation
facilities;
(f) nightclubs;
(g) outdoor playgrounds and
gymnasium equipment in public places;
(h) public swimming and
paddling pools;
(i) soft play centres.
(2) In this Article –
“amusement centre” means a building or place used principally for
playing billiards or other like games, electronic or mechanical amusement
devices such as pinball machines, video or arcade games and the like;
“entertainment facility” means a concert hall, dance hall, theatre,
cinema and the like;
“indoor recreation facility” means a building or place used
predominantly for indoor recreation, including a squash court, indoor sport
court, gymnasium, bowling alley or any other building or place of a like
character used for indoor recreation;
“nightclub” means premises holding a licence of the seventh category
(referred to as an “Entertainment Licence”) under the Licensing (Jersey) Law 1974, the principal purpose of
which is the retail sale of liquor for consumption on the premises, whether or
not food is sold on the premises.
3 Specified workplaces
open for certain purposes
(1) The Minister directs that the following workplaces
may be open only for the purposes specified in this Article –
(a) boarding
houses, caravan parks, camping grounds and hostels for the purpose of
accommodating permanent residents of the boarding house, caravan park, camping
ground or hostel;
(b) commercial
accommodation for the purpose of accommodating (including providing food and
beverages to persons using the accommodation to consume in their room) persons who
are employed or contracted to work in Jersey for a purpose relating to the
Covid‑19 outbreak;
(c) community centres for the
purpose of providing services, free of charge, to assist vulnerable members of
the public, such as food banks, blood donations or services providing for the
needs of homeless people;
(d) food and drink premises
(whether or not part of any other workplace that may be open under this Article)
for the purpose of –
(i) selling food or
beverages for persons to consume off the premises,
(ii) selling
food or beverages other than intoxicating liquor for persons to consume in an
outdoor area, or
(iii) selling intoxicating
liquor to persons taking a meal (as defined in the Licensing (Jersey) Law 1974) in an outdoor area;
(e) golf courses for
the purpose of allowing access to open spaces to be used for the purpose of playing golf;
(f) markets and retail
premises (including retail premises forming part of workplaces that may be open
under this Article) for the purpose of selling or hiring out the goods and
merchandise offered for sale or hire in those markets or premises;
(g) places
of public worship for the purpose of conducting a funeral service or
facilitating the formation of a marriage;
(h) outdoor recreational
facilities for the purposes of –
(i) allowing the use of
recreational facilities in outdoor areas,
(ii) hiring out equipment to
persons who intend to participate in recreational activities in outdoor areas, or
(iii) carrying out
instructional recreational activities in outdoor areas,
and if
reasonably necessary, allowing members of the public to transit through indoor
areas for a purpose mentioned in clause (i), (ii) or (iii), including
ticketing;
(i) workplaces
controlled or operated by Jersey Heritage or the Durrell Wildlife Conservation
Trust for the purposes of –
(i) allowing visitors to
access outdoor areas, and
(ii) if
reasonably necessary, allowing visitors to transit through indoor areas for
that purpose, including ticketing.
(2) In this Article –
“commercial accommodation” means a building or place (whether or not
licensed premises under the Licensing (Jersey) Law 1974) that provides temporary or
short-term accommodation on a commercial basis and that –
(a) comprises rooms or
self-contained accommodation; and
(b) provides meals to guests
or the general public,
but does not include boarding houses, caravan parks, camping grounds
or premises used for the purpose of a care home service regulated under the Regulation of Care (Jersey) Law 2014;
“community centre” means a building or place owned or operated by a
parish or a non-profit community organisation used primarily for the physical,
social, cultural or intellectual development or welfare of the community;
“food and drink premises” means premises (whether or not licensed
premises under the Licensing (Jersey) Law 1974) that are used for the
preparation and retail sale of food or drink (or both) for immediate
consumption on or off the premises, and includes the following –
(a) a restaurant, café or
public bar (whether or not the premises form part of commercial accommodation);
(b) takeaway food and drink
premises;
(c) premises operating with
the permission of the Minister for Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and
Culture under the Policing of Beaches (Jersey)
Regulations 1959;
(d) registered premises operating
under a valid registration certificate issued under the Places of Refreshment (Jersey) Law 1967;
“indoor area” means an area, room or other
premises that is or are substantially enclosed by a roof and walls, regardless
of whether the roof or walls or any part of the roof or walls are –
(a) permanent or temporary;
or
(b) open or closed;
“intoxicating liquor” has the same meaning as in the Licensing (Jersey) Law 1974;
“market” means an open-air area, or an existing building, that is
used for the purpose of selling, exposing or offering goods, merchandise or
materials for sale by independent shops or stall holders, and includes existing
permanent structures used for that purpose on an intermittent or occasional
basis;
“outdoor area” means an area that is not an indoor area;
“outdoor recreational facility” means a
building, place or area used exclusively or predominantly for outdoor
recreation, whether or not operated for the purposes of gain, including an
outdoor activity centre, a mini-golf facility, tennis courts, a lawn bowling
green, an equestrian centre or horse riding school, a shooting range or a
surfing school, or any other building or place of a like character used for
outdoor recreation (including any ancillary buildings);
“retail premises” means a building or place used for the purpose of
selling items by retail, or hiring or displaying items for the purpose of
selling them or hiring them out, but does not include food and drink premises
or workplaces that are directed to be closed under Article 2.
(3) Nothing in this Article prevents the
occupier or operator of a workplace providing –
(a) reasonable access
to toilet facilities or facilities to administer appropriate first aid;
(b) services, free of charge, to assist
vulnerable members of the public, such as food banks, blood donations or
services providing for the needs of homeless people; or
(c) accommodation (including providing food
and beverages to persons using the accommodation to consume in their room) to a
person accessing a public service (including emergency accommodation) whether
provided by the Government of Jersey, a private provider or a non-profit
organisation.
4 Other workplaces permitted to be open
Any workplace
that is not prohibited from being open under any other provision of this Order
may be open.
5 General
exception to restriction on workplaces being open
Nothing in this Order
prevents the use of workplaces for the purpose of
providing a service to deliver to a person, or to arrange the collection by a
person, of goods, merchandise and materials purchased by a person off the
premises.
6 Citation and
commencement
This Order may be cited as
the Covid-19 (Workplace Restrictions) (Jersey) Order 2020 and comes into
force on the day after it is made.