🇳🇿Council: Stratford

Compliance for Stratford Studios

Syyn covers Stratford 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 (Licence).
  • Annual renewal required.
  • Stratford District Council Licence. Piercing gun restriction (ear lobe only).

Sterilisation and Record-Keeping

  • Sterilisation records required.
  • Retention period: 24 months.
  • Code of Practice reviewed 2023. Piercing gun restriction (ear lobe only).

Session Documentation

  • Written aftercare instructions required.

Key Legislation

  • Beauty Therapy, Tattooing and Piercing Bylaw 2017 (Chapter 23)
  • Code of Practice reviewed 2023
  • Health Act 1956; Local Government Act 2002

Information is operational guidance only and not legal advice.

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