Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person must not perform tattooing on a minor.
Maximum penalty—40 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
(2) In this section—
tattooing—
(a) means the process of penetrating a person's skin and inserting into it colour pigments to make a permanent mark, pattern or design on the skin; and
(b) includes any process that penetrates the skin and inserts into it colour pigments to make a semipermanent mark, pattern or design on the skin including for example—
(i) the process known as cosmetic tattooing; or
(ii) the process for applying semipermanent make-up.