Pictor Academy
logo-white right-arrow dropdown-arrow left-arrow email phone newsletters translate wrap-around-care school-meals search staff useful-links trust-logo-text term-dates twitter right-thin-chevron contact facebook

Interactive bar

Google Services/Social Media

Google Search

Search

Google Translate

Translate

Header

Pictor Acadmey

‘Believe and Succeed’

       

Tattoos

The Local Authority and Police have notified schools that young people have received tattoos from an unknown and unlicensed person in Salford. Not only is this an illegal act, but puts young people at risk of blood borne infections.

 

Tattooing Of Minors Act 1969

 

1969 CHAPTER 24

An Act to prohibit the tattooing of persons under the age of eighteen years.

 

Prohibition of tattooing of minors.

It shall be an offence to tattoo a person under the age of eighteen except when the tattoo is performed for medical reasons by a duly qualified medical practitioner or by a person working under his direction, but it shall be a defence for a person charged to show that at the time the tattoo was performed he had reasonable cause to believe that the person tattooed was of or over the age of eighteen and did in fact so believe.

 

Penalties.

Any person committing such an offence shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [F1level 3 on the standard scale], or, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding [F1level 3 on the standard scale].

 

Please click here for more information on this legislation.

Quick Access

Top