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S 992/2021 ::(ii) any other member of the committee of the unincorporated association. Division 2—Employers’ and principals’ duties Mask wearing

18.—(1) An employer and a principal must each take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures as are necessary to ensure that every employee of the employer, and every worker of the principal, respectively, wears a mask when at work in any of the employer’s or principal’s work premises unless —
 * (a) the nature of the employee’s work or worker’s work (as the case may be) is such that wearing a mask creates a risk to his or her health and safety; or
 * (b) the employee or worker (as the case may be) is authorised under any Control Order to not wear a mask.

(2) An occupier of any work premises must take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures as are necessary to ensure that every individual who—
 * (a) enters or remains in the work premises in connection with any trade, business, profession or undertaking the occupier is carrying on at those work premises; but
 * (b) is not a customer or prospective customer of the occupier of the work premises,

wears a mask when at work in any of the principal’s work premises unless the individual is authorised under any Control Order to not wear a mask.

Physical distance requirement

19.—(1) Subject to the exceptions in paragraph (2), an employer or a principal must take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures as are necessary to ensure that at all times during the period the work premises of the employer or principal (as the case may be) are open for work there is a distance of at least one metre between any of the person’s employees or workers (as the case may be) when at