Note: there is no specific legislation regarding intimate piercings in the ACT and NT
Queensland
Summary of Offences Act 2005:
18 (1) A person must not, as part of a business transaction, perform body piercing to any part of—
(a) the external genitalia of a female who is a minor; or
(b) the penis or scrotal skin of a male who is a minor; or
(c) the nipples of a minor.
Law Reform Act 1995
Part 6 (17) The age of majority is 18 years.
Note: The age of majority is the threshold of legal adulthood as recognised or declared in law.
South Australia
Summary of Offences Regulation 2016:
“It is an offence to perform an intimate body piercing or body modification procedure on a person under the age of 18 years;”
Summary of Offences Regulation 2016
Intimate body piercing: “the piercing of a person’s genitalia, anal region, perineum, nipples or uvula”
Tasmania
Police Offences Act 1935
35A (4) A person must not perform –
(a) an intimate body piercing on a youth
Annulled Convictions Act 2003 – SECT 3
Youth: “a person who has not attained the age of 18 years.”
Victoria
Summary Offences Amendment
(Tattooing and Body Piercing) Act 2008
43A (2) A body piercer must not perform body piercing on the genitalia, anal region, perineum or nipples of a person under the age of 18 years;
Western Australia
Children and Community Services Act 2004
104A (2) A person must not carry out body piercing on any of the following parts of the body of a child —
(a) the genitals;
(b) the anal area;
(c) the perineum;
(d) the nipples.
Guidelines for the Protection of Children 2020
Child: “a person who is under 18 years of age”
New South Wales
Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 No 157
230A (2) A person must not perform body piercing on any part of—
(a) the genitalia of a child, or
(b) the nipples of a child.
Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 No 157
Child: “a person who is under the age of 16 years.”