Queensland Numbered Acts

SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 2005 No. 4 - SECT 18

(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.

Maximum penalty--

(a) 40 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment; or

(b) if the minor is an intellectually impaired person 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 1.5

intellectually impaired person see the Criminal Code, section 1.