Special Procedures Licensing Committees (Wales) Regulations 2024

Through the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017, the Welsh Government intends to create a national scheme for licensing special procedures such as acupuncture, body piercing, electrolysis and tattooing. The required laws are not yet in force but a consultation on draft regulations and statutory guidance for the mandatory licensing of special procedures closed earlier this year.

As a recent development, the Special Procedures Licensing Committees (Wales) Regulations 2024 was laid before the Senedd Cymru (Welsh Parliament) on 19 September 2024 and will come into force on 29 November 2024. In brief, these regulations make provision about the procedures applicable to local authority licensing committees and sub-committees when they are required to hold a hearing in respect of special procedure licensing under the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017.

A link to the new regulations can be found here and we will keep you updated as to any further developments relating to the commencement of relevant provisions instigating the new mandatory licensing scheme.