Coronavirus NI: This is what you will and will not be permitted to do when Covid-19 restrictions are eased on December 11

The Executive has agreed that the following can open:

- Non-essential businesses, including retail and close contact services to include driving instructors.

- Pubs and private members’ clubs serving a main or substantive meal that has been prepared in their own kitchen; restaurants and cafes.

Contact details must be taken from all customers. Mitigations, that were previously required, will stay in place.

Food and drink can be purchased until 10.30pm but cannot be consumed on the premises after 11.00pm, and all persons must vacate the venue by 11.00pm.

- Hotels and guesthouses.

Mitigations that were previously required will stay in place, including restrictions on food and drink.

- Gyms, swimming and diving pools can open for individual training, training with a personal trainer and non-aerobic classes of up to 15. Contact details must be taken.

- Outdoor events and gatherings, subject to a risk assessment if more than 15 attending and measures in place to limit risk of virus transmission with an upper limit of 500 on participants.

- Sports events, subject to a risk assessment if more than 15 people attending with measures in place to limit risk of virus transmission. An upper limit of 500 spectators is permitted. Inter-school competitive sporting events are not permitted.

- Outdoor exercise in groups of up to a maximum of 15.

- Places of worship.

- Outdoor and indoor visitor attractions, museums, galleries and libraries.

The following must remain closed:

- Wet pubs and private members’ clubs not serving a main or substantial meal. Off sales are permitted up to 10.30pm. This applies to off sales, supermarkets and hospitality venues selling alcohol.

- Concert halls and theatres, except for rehearsals and recordings.

- Nightclubs.

The Executive also agreed that:

- Current arrangements for gatherings in domestic and private dwellings will remain the same as is currently in place, apart from the temporary arrangements over the Christmas period.

- Receptions for marriages and civil partnerships are permitted, with numbers subject to risk assessment determined by the place of worship, or venue. Mitigations that were previously required will stay in place.

- Wedding ceremonies and civil partnerships will continue and the number attending will be determined by the place of worship, or venue.

- Attendees and the organiser/operator of funerals must comply with funeral guidance issued by the Department of Health.

- No holidaying in groups outside of the domestic settings rules – this applies to venues, such as self-catering chalets, which can accommodate large numbers.