Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008

98Prohibition on allowing unsupervised use of sunbedsS

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(1)An operator of sunbed premises who, without reasonable excuse, allows a person to use a sunbed on those premises without supervision commits an offence.

(2)In subsection (1), the requirement for supervision is met if the operator (or an employee or agent of the operator) is present on the sunbed premises at any time a person is using a sunbed on those premises.

(3)In proceedings for an offence under subsection (1), it is a defence for the operator to prove that the operator (or an employee or agent of the operator) exercised all due diligence and took all reasonable steps to avoid committing the offence.

Commencement Information

I1S. 98 in force at 1.12.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/404, art. 2(1), Sch. 1