Health and Building unit
Available 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Make a lodgement with the City of Sydney.
If you’re taking on an existing business that penetrates skin or intends to introduce this procedure, you must obtain approval from us.
An event in our area that involves these procedures such as a tattoo or beauty expo must be lodged with the skin penetration event register.
Operating your skin penetration business without development consent is an offence.
Available 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Before starting any skin penetration, check the premises’ development consent or speak to a City of Sydney planner.
You also need to register with us if you are planning an event in the local area involving skin penetration procedures. Please contact us if you need more information about registering your business or event.
There is a one-off registration fee of $100.
You must complete and submit the register at least 28 days before your event. It must include:
We will email you confirmation when your event has been registered.
When a temporary skin penetration business registers to trade in the local area, we issue a Temporary Skin Penetration number.
All temporary skin penetration stalls planned for your event should be listed in a spreadsheet attached to your event registration form.
If you cannot provide the list when you send your registration form, you must submit a list of all TSP numbers of stalls and the map with stall locations at least 10 working days prior to the event, otherwise a late fee of $260 will be charged.
Skin penetration procedures include:
If you require further information on specific procedures, NSW Health provides fact sheets.
Barber and hairdresser services, where skin penetration doesn’t take place, aren’t considered to be skin penetration procedures.
The state government provides standards for hairdressers and beauty salons that don’t penetrate skin.
We ask that you provide adequate power and lighting for your event.
Power must be available for all stalls that need electricity. You must ensure all stalls have adequate lighting.
If stallholders do not have adequate washing facilities then you must provide it to ensure adequate cleaning and sanitising of all equipment and utensils that are used.
Temporary skin penetration stallholders are responsible for providing hand wash basins for their stall. If you would prefer to provide hand wash basins, we will fully support this.
All skin penetration events in the local area will be inspected by us.
An inspection fee will be charged if we inspect your stall. The inspection fee is charged in line with our current fees and charges.