Licensing Requirements

Who needs a licence?

Businesses who conduct 'higher risk' personal appearance services are required to be licenced with Council. Higher risk personal appearances services involves any of the following skin penetration procedures in which the release of blood or other bodily fluid is an expected result -

• body piercing (excluding piercing a person's ear or nose with a closed piercing instrument);
• implanting natural or synthetic substances into a person's skin, including for example hair or beads;
• scarring or cutting a person's skin using a sharp instrument to make a permanent mark, pattern of design;
• tatooing;
• another skin penetration procedure prescribed under a regulation

If an operator is conducting a higher risk PAS from two seperate locations within one local government area, only one licence is required.

Who doesn't need a licence?

Businesses who conduct 'non-higher' risk personal appearance services are not required to be licenced with Council. These businesses include:

• Hairdressing
• Beauty therapy including facial and body treatments, application of cosmetics, manicures or pedicures, application of or mending artificial nails, epilation (hair removal) by electrolysis or wax
• Skin penetration procedures - closed ear or nose piercing

If a licence is not required, you still have the responsibility to ensure that you comply with relevant legislative requirements and other Council approvals.

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