🇦🇺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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