
2024 No. 1246 (W. 206)
Public Health, Wales
The Prescribed Objects for Body Piercing (Special Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2024
Made 27 November 2024
Coming into force 29 November 2024

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 94(1) and 123(1)(b) of the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017, make the following Regulations.

In accordance with section 123(2)(b) of that Act, a draft of these Regulations has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, Senedd Cymru.
Title and coming into force
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(1) The title of these Regulations is the Prescribed Objects for Body Piercing (Special Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2024.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 29 November 2024.
Prescribed objects for the purposes of Part 4 of the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017
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Any object that is not jewellery is prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (b) in the definition of “body piercing” in section 94(1) of the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017, but only insofar as that definition applies for the purposes of Part 4 of that Act (special procedures).
Jeremy Miles
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, one of the Welsh Ministers
27 November 2024