Starting a health premises?
Under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008, health businesses that conduct the following activities must register with us:
- Beauty therapy
Any procedure intended to maintain, alter or enhance a person's appearance by, facial or body treatments, application of cosmetics, manicures or pedicures, application or mending of artificial nails and epilation including by electrolysis or hot or cold wax – but does not include hairdressing, tattooing or skin penetration
- Hairdressing
Any procedure intended to maintain, alter or enhance a person's appearance in relation to facial or scalp hair by trimming, styling, cutting, and colouring, treating or shaving hair.
- Skin penetration
Any procedure performed on a person other than a surgical or medical procedure that involves, piercing, cutting, scarring, branding, scraping, puncturing or tearing of the skin using an instrument – but does not include tattooing
- Tattooing
Any process that involves the penetration of a person's skin to make a permanent or semi-permanent mark, pattern or design on the skin, including the process of applying semi-permanent make-up or cosmetic tattooing.
- Colonic irrigation
A procedure involving the cleansing of a person’s colon by insertion of a tube into the colon and/or using fluid.
Please refer to the Guidelines for Health and beauty premises document linked below for further information.
The following business are exempt from registration if the services offered could be considered to be part of their natural profession: dentists, medical practitioners, nurses, podiatrists, acupuncturists, pathology services, non-pathology analysis businesses and hospitals/health centres.
Massage as a stand alone service does not require a registration with council’s Enviromental Health team.