NOTICE OF COUNCIL RESOLUTION
1. Buckinghamshire Council resolved on 21st September 2022 (as amended on 18th November 2022) that the following provisions of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 shall apply to the area of this council:

Section 14 - Acupuncture
Section 15 - Tattooing, semi-permanent skin-colouring, cosmetic piercing and electrolysis
Section 16 - Provisions supplementary to sections 14 and 15 Section 17 - Power to enter premises (acupuncture etc.)
2. The date on which these provisions will come into force will be: 1st January 2023.

3. The general effect of this resolution is, subject to the exceptions detailed below, that a person who carries on the business of acupuncture; tattooing; semi-permanent skin-colouring; cosmetic piercing; or electrolysis must be registered with this Council, and they can only carry on their business in premises which have also been registered. The certificate of registration must be prominently displayed at the place where the business is carried on. The Council is empowered to charge fees for registration. Applications for registration must be accompanied by the following information in particular, details of the premises concerned and particulars of any conviction of the applicant under section 16 of the 1982 Act.

A person who contravenes section 15 will be guilty of an offence, and liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding £1000, or suspension or cancellation of registration or both. An authorised officer of the Council may apply to a Justice of the Peace for a warrant to enter premises on suspicion that an offence under Section 16 is being committed there.
4. Exceptions:

i These provisions of the Act do not extend to the carrying on of the business of tattooing, semi-permanent skin-colouring, cosmetic piercing or electrolysis by or under the supervision of a registered medical practitioner (i.e. means a fully registered person within the meaning of the Medical Act 1983 who holds a licence to practise under that Act).

ii A person who is registered under the provision of the Act specified in paragraph 1 above will not be committing an offence by engaging in the activity otherwise than at registered premises merely because he sometimes visits people at their request to provide his services.