http://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2017/2/section/96Public Health (Wales) Act 2017An Act of the National Assembly for Wales to make provision for a national strategy on tackling obesity; about smoking; for a register of retailers of tobacco and nicotine products; about the handing over of tobacco and nicotine products to persons aged under 18; about the performance of certain procedures for aesthetic or therapeutic purposes; about intimate piercing of children; about health impact assessments; about assessing the local need for pharmaceutical services; about pharmaceutical lists; about assessing the local need for public toilets; about fixed penalty receipts for food hygiene rating offences; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-09-16Expert Participation2024-09-13 PART 5 INTIMATE PIERCING<Emphasis>Offences related to intimate piercing</Emphasis>What is an intimate piercing?961For the purposes of section 95, an intimate piercing is a body piercing performed on an intimate body part listed in subsection (2), where performed otherwise than in the course of a medical procedure.2The intimate body parts are the—aanus;bbreast (including the nipple and areola);cbuttock;dnatal cleft;epenis (including the foreskin);fperineum;gpubic mound;hscrotum;itongue;jvulva.3In this section “body piercing”has the meaning given in section 94.4For the purposes of this section a medical procedure is a procedure carried out by a registered medical practitioner, registered nurse or registered midwife, for the purposes of, or in connection with—athe diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease, ill-health, disability, or other physical or mental abnormality, orbbirth control.S. 96 in force at 1.2.2018 by S.I. 2018/1, art. 2(a)
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