Issue - meetings

Report of Food, Health and Housing Manager

Consideration was given to a report of the Food, Health and Housing Manager seeking approval for the affixing of the common seal to the draft byelaws relating to acupuncture, tattooing, semi–permanent skin–colouring, cosmetic piercing and electrolysis and for the byelaws to be referred to the Secretary of State for the Department of Health for confirmation and approval.

The report also sought the approval of Council to appoint legal services to apply to the Secretary of State for the Department of Health to execute the procedure and to approve the placing of an advert in the local paper to inform all local businesses and interested parties who would be likely to be affected by the adoption of consolidated model byelaws.

RESOLVED to:

1)    Authorise the affixing of the common seal to the draft byelaws described in the report at Appendix A;

2)    Authorise legal services to carry out the necessary procedure to apply to the Secretary of State for the Department of Health for confirmation and approval of the byelaws; and

3)    Authorise the placing of an advert in the local paper, the placing of information with a copy of the byelaws on the Council’s website and making available of a copy of the byelaws at the Council’s offices.