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Tattooists: public liability requirements in Australian Capital Territory

Cover for legal liability to third parties for personal injury or property damage arising from business activities.

Data as at

Verified for Australian Capital Territory

  • Licence liability condition: No insurance condition, from two complete instruments with nothing between them. The words insurance, insured and indemnity appear zero times across all 206 pages of the Public Health Act 1997, and zero times across the Public Health (Infection Control) Code of Practice 2005 — the Act that creates the licence and the Code that sets its standards. ACT · effective 2026-08-25 Australian Capital Territory Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licence evidence required: Infection control compliance only. Monitoring is by inspection, with authorised officers from ACT Health checking compliance with the Code. No certificate of currency at any stage, and no insurance-triggered suspension. ACT · effective 2026-08-25 Australian Capital Territory Government · 2026-08-24
  • Licensing body: Tattooing is licensed in the ACT. It is a skin penetration procedure and therefore a declared public health risk activity requiring an Infection Control Activity Licence from ACT Health's Health Protection Service under the Public Health Act 1997. The Code of Practice lists tattoo studios, body piercing studios, mobile practitioners and ear piercing businesses among the personal service businesses it covers. The regime moved here in 2001, when the Skin Penetration Procedures Act 1994 was repealed. ACT · effective 2026-08-25 Australian Capital Territory Government · 2026-08-24

What contracts commonly ask for

Principals and head contractors set their own insurance requirements, and those are frequently higher than a licence condition. The requirement that binds is the higher of the two, and both have to be read from the actual document.

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