Key Features and Guidance Notes for a Skin Piercing Operator Licence
(Tattooing, ear and body piercing, acupuncture and electrolysis)

Introduction

If you offer tattooing, acupuncture, ear and body piercing or electrolysis you must be registered with your local authority. If you work from a premises, they must also be registered. Once registered, you will be issued with a certificate of registration.|

Who can apply and what for

You must provide specific information including details of your premises and any previous convictions for practising without a licence in this field.

|A fee will be charged.

Application Criteria

|A summary of the regulation relating to this licence

Application Evaluation Process

No provision in legislation

Will Tacit Consent (automatic approval if the Council does not decide on your application in time) Apply?

No. It is in the public interest that the Council must process your application before it can be granted to ensure good standards of hygiene and infection control. If you have not heard from the Council within a reasonable period, please contact them.

Submit an Application Online

|Apply for a licence to pierce skin

Failed Application Appeal/Redress Process

Please |contact the Council.

If a registration is suspended or cancelled the registration holder may appeal to the county court.

Consumer Complaints

We would always advise that in the event of a complaint contact is made with the trader/business proprietor by you - preferably in the form a letter (with proof of delivery). If that has not worked, if you are located in the UK, |Consumer Direct will give you advice. From outside the UK contact the |UK European Consumer Centre.

Additional sources of information including Trade Associations

None

Declaration

These notes are intended for guidance only and are not authoritative. No responsibility is accepted if, having read them, the forms are incorrectly completed.