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SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 2005 - SECT 18 Particular body piercing of minor prohibited

SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 2005 - SECT 18

Particular body piercing of minor prohibited

18 Particular body piercing of minor prohibited

(1) A person must not, as part of a business transaction, perform body piercing to any part of—
(a) the external genitalia of a female who is a minor; or
(b) the penis or scrotal skin of a male who is a minor; or
(c) the nipples of a minor.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—
(a) 40 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment; or
(b) if the minor is a person with an impairment of the mind or the minor’s decision-making capacity is impaired because of alcohol or a drug—80 penalty units or 1 year’s imprisonment.
(2) It is not a defence to a prosecution of a person for a charge of an offence against subsection (1) that the minor, or a parent or guardian of the minor, consented to the body piercing.
(3) In this section—


"body piercing" means the process of penetrating a person’s skin or mucous membrane with a sharp instrument for the purpose of implanting jewellery or other foreign material through or into the skin or mucous membrane.
Examples of foreign material—
• a ring
• a bar
• a pin
• a stud

"genitalia" see the Criminal Code , section 1 .


"person with an impairment of the mind" see the Criminal Code , section 1 .