🇳🇿Council: Napier

Compliance for Napier Studios

Syyn covers Napier compliance requirements for tattoo and piercing studios, including council bylaws, age rules, and record-keeping.

Compliance Requirements

Age and Consent Rules

  • Tattoo: 18+ without consent; parental consent path: written consent.
  • Piercing: 16+ without consent; parental consent path: written consent.
  • Intimate piercing: 18+ only.

Licensing Requirements

  • Premises registration required (Certificate of Registration).
  • Annual renewal required.
  • Napier City Council Certificate of Registration. Annual renewal from 1 April.

Sterilisation and Record-Keeping

  • Sterilisation records required.
  • Retention period: 24 months.
  • Smooth, impervious, readily cleanable surfaces required in procedure areas.

Session Documentation

  • Written aftercare instructions required.

Key Legislation

  • Tattooists and Skin Piercers Bylaw 2021
  • Health Act 1956; Local Government Act 2002

Information is operational guidance only and not legal advice.

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