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SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 2005 - SECT 19

Tattooing minor prohibited

19 Tattooing minor prohibited

(1) A person must not perform tattooing on a minor.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—40 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
(2) In this section—

"tattooing"
(a) means the process of penetrating a person’s skin and inserting into it colour pigments to make a permanent mark, pattern or design on the skin; and
(b) includes any process that penetrates the skin and inserts into it colour pigments to make a semipermanent mark, pattern or design on the skin including for example—
(i) the process known as cosmetic tattooing; or
(ii) the process for applying semipermanent make-up.



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