🇳🇿Council: New Plymouth

Compliance for New Plymouth Studios

Syyn covers New Plymouth 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 (Health and Hygiene Licence).
  • Annual renewal required.
  • NPDC Health and Hygiene Licence. $179.40/yr. Non-transferable.

Sterilisation and Record-Keeping

  • Sterilisation records required.
  • Retention period: 24 months.
  • Non-transferable premises licence. Bylaw 2010 Part 6.

Session Documentation

  • Written aftercare instructions required.

Key Legislation

  • NPDC Bylaw 2010, Part 6: Beauty Therapy, Tattooing and Skin Piercing
  • Health Act 1956; Local Government Act 2002

Information is operational guidance only and not legal advice.

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