Summary Offences Act 2005

A person must not, as part of a business transaction, perform body piercing to any part of—

the external genitalia of a minor; or

the nipples of a minor.

Maximum penalty—

40 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment; or

if the minor is a person with an impairment of the mind or the minor’s decision-making capacity is impaired because of alcohol or a drug—80 penalty units or 1 year’s imprisonment.

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.

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.person with an impairment of the mind see the Criminal Code, section 1.