🇦🇺State: Queensland
Compliance for Queensland Studios
Syyn covers Queensland compliance requirements for tattoo and piercing studios, including age rules, licensing, sterilisation tracking, and record-keeping.
Compliance Requirements
Age and Consent Rules
- Tattoo: 18+ absolute, no parental consent pathway.
- Piercing: consent allowed, mode: written consent.
- Intimate piercing: 18+ only.
- Queensland law prohibits tattooing persons under 18 (Summary Offences Act 2005 (Qld) s.19).
- Intimate body piercing (genitalia or nipples) of persons under 18 is prohibited (Summary Offences Act 2005 (Qld) s.18).
Licensing Requirements
- QLD requires both an Office of Fair Trading (OFT) Operator Licence and a council Personal Appearance Services (PAS) Premises Registration under the Public Health (Infection Control for Personal Appearance Services) Act 2003.
- Practitioner licence required (Tattooist Licence Number (OFT)).
- Secondary licence required (Council PAS Premises Registration Number).
- Infection control certificate required for practitioners (Infection Control Certificate (HLTINF005)).
Sterilisation and Record-Keeping
- Sterilisation records required.
- Retention period: 36 months.
- Monthly biological indicator testing mandatory. 3-year record retention required.
Session Documentation
- Written aftercare instructions required for tattoo procedures.
- Ink batch number recording required.
Key Legislation
- Tattoo Industry Act 2013 (licensing + procedures log)
- Summary Offences Act 2005 ss18-19 (tattoo/intimate piercing age offences)
- Public Health (Infection Control for Personal Appearance Services) Act 2003
Information is operational guidance only and not legal advice.
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