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Queensland act
This Queensland law regulates businesses that provide personal appearance services — things like hairdressing, beauty therapy, tattooing, body piercing, and skin treatments — to reduce the risk of spreading infections (like hepatitis or HIV) to customers.
If you run a tattoo studio, piercing shop, or similar business that breaks the skin (called a "higher risk" service), you must:
If you run a hairdressing salon, beauty salon, nail bar, or waxing studio (called "non-higher risk" services), you must:
If you personally perform tattooing, body piercing, scarification, or implanting materials under skin, you need an infection control qualification — even if you're not the business owner.
If you're a customer, this law protects you by setting minimum hygiene standards. However, you cannot sue a business simply because they broke this law — you'd need to rely on other legal rights (like negligence) to do that.
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Direct links to the current provisions in Public Health (Infection Control for Personal Appearance Services) Act 2003.
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Without proper hygiene, services like tattooing and piercing can transmit serious blood-borne diseases. This law creates a licensing system and sets hygiene standards to protect the public, while giving local councils the tools to shut down unsafe operators quickly.