Restriction of gatherings for social purposes

(1) For the purposes of preventing, controlling, containing and suppressing the spread of the infectious disease COVID-19, no person shall gather for social purposes in numbers of more than ten persons at a time who are not of the same household, anywhere in Belize, whether in any public or private place. (2) Notwithstanding subregulation (1), members of the National Assembly and persons involved in the functioning of any sitting of the National Assembly may gather in numbers of more than ten persons at any sitting of the National Assembly. (3) Every person commits an offence if that person hosts or attends a gathering of more than ten persons who are not from the same household. (4) A person who commits an offence under subregulation (3) is liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.