🇦🇺State: Victoria
Compliance for Victoria Studios
Syyn covers Victoria 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 + parent present.
- Intimate piercing: 18+ only.
- VIC: Piercing under 16 requires written parental consent and parent/guardian must be present.
Licensing Requirements
- VIC requires premises registration through local council. No individual practitioner licence required.
Sterilisation and Record-Keeping
- Sterilisation records required.
- Retention period: 12 months.
- Sterilisation records recommended. Biological indicator testing recommended but not mandated.
Session Documentation
- Written aftercare instructions required for tattoo procedures.
Key Legislation
- Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 + Regulations 2019
- Summary Offences Act 1966 ss42-44A
- Health Records Act 2001 (Vic) + Privacy Act 1988
Information is operational guidance only and not legal advice.
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