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TATTOO PARLOURS ACT 2012 - SECT 8 Employed body art tattooists to be licensed

TATTOO PARLOURS ACT 2012 - SECT 8

Employed body art tattooists to be licensed

8 Employed body art tattooists to be licensed

(1) A person must not employ an individual to work as a body art tattooist unless the individual is the holder of a tattooist licence.
: Maximum penalty--
(a) in the case of a corporation--100 penalty units and in addition, in the case of a continuing offence, 100 penalty units for each day the offence continues, and
(b) in any other case--50 penalty units and in addition, in the case of a continuing offence, 50 penalty units for each day the offence continues.
(2) It is a defence in proceedings for an offence against this section if the person satisfies the court that the person did not know, and could not reasonably have been expected to know, that the individual employed to work as a body art tattooist was unlicensed.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to the employment of an individual to work as a body art tattooist in such circumstances as may be prescribed by the regulations.