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.