Part 8Miscellaneous and general

Chapter 1Miscellaneous

Other

120Regulation of cosmetic piercing and skin-colouring businesses

1

Section 15 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (c. 30) (regulation of tattooing, ear-piercing and electrolysis businesses) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1) (requirement for person carrying on business to be registered), for paragraph (b) (ear-piercing) there is substituted—

aa

of semi-permanent skin-colouring;

b

of cosmetic piercing; or

(and in the side-note for “ear-piercing” there is substituted “ semi-permanent skin-colouring, cosmetic piercing ”).

3

In subsection (2) (requirement to register premises where business carried on)—

a

for “ear-piercing” there is substituted “ semi-permanent skin-colouring, cosmetic piercing ”, and

b

for “pierce their ears” there is substituted “ carry out semi-permanent skin-colouring on them, pierce their bodies ”.

4

In subsection (5) (local authority may not require particulars about individuals whose ears have been pierced etc.), for “or whose ears he has pierced” there is substituted “ , whose bodies he has pierced or on whom he has carried out semi-permanent skin-colouring ”.

5

After subsection (8) there is inserted—

9

In this section “semi-permanent skin-colouring” means the insertion of semi-permanent colouring into a person’s skin.

6

Schedule 6 (which makes provision about transition) has effect.