「時短命令」違反４店、過料手続き　営業継続を確認、全国初―東京都

　東京都は２９日、新型コロナウイルス対策の緊急事態宣言中に営業時間短縮命令を出した３２の飲食店のうち、４店で午後８時以降の営業継続が確認できたとして、コロナ対策の特別措置法に基づき、過料を科すための手続きを裁判所に行ったと発表した。
　特措法に基づく時短営業命令は全国初で、過料の手続きに入るのも初。同法では緊急事態宣言下で時短命令に従わない場合、３０万円以下の過料を科すと明記している。
　小池百合子知事は同日、都庁内で記者団に「過料の手続きは法律にのっとって丁寧に進めてきたもので、判断するのは裁判所だ」と述べた。
　都によると、午後８時までの時短要請に応じなかった１２９店に対し、特措法４５条に基づき再度要請。それでも応じない３２店に１８、１９両日に命令を出していた。都は命令後、営業実態を改めて確認し、４社の４店で違反が判明した。宣言は２１日の期限で解除された。
　この問題をめぐっては、２６店が時短命令を受けた飲食店運営会社「グローバルダイニング」が損害賠償を求めて東京地裁に提訴した。同社は命令後、時短営業を行っている。（2021/03/29-19:44）

The Tokyo metropolitan government has taken court procedures under a recently revised law to impose fines on restaurants that failed to follow an early closure order issued to combat the novel coronavirus.
   Of 32 eating and drinking establishments to which the Tokyo government issued the early closure order while the central government's latest COVID-19 state of emergency was in place, four were confirmed to have continued operations after 8 p.m.
   Tokyo became the first prefectural government in Japan to issue an early closure order and also the first to take court procedures to fine violator restaurants, both based on the revised special measures law to fight COVID-19 and other epidemics, which took effect in February.
   "We carefully took the procedures to impose fines according to the law," Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike told reporters on Monday. "It's now up to the court to make a judgment."
   Under the revised special measures law, the country's prefectural governors are given authority to issue orders against businesses not complying with requests for coronavirus infection prevention measures, such as operating hour cuts, without legitimate reasons. Those not following such orders while a state of emergency is declared by the central government will be slapped with fines of up to 300,000 yen.