Queensland Consolidated Acts

SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 2005 - SECT 19

19 Tattooing minor prohibited

(1) A person must not perform tattooing on a minor.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.

(2) In this section—

"tattooing" —

(a) means the process of penetrating a person’s skin and inserting into it colour pigments to make a permanent mark, pattern or design on the skin; and

(b) includes any process that penetrates the skin and inserts into it colour pigments to make a semipermanent mark, pattern or design on the skin including for example—

(i) the process known as cosmetic tattooing; or

(ii) the process for applying semipermanent make-up.