These Regulations make provision under the Sunbeds Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (“the Act”) in relation to the health and other information which must be provided to persons buying, hiring or proposing to use a sunbed.

Regulation 2 prescribes the content of the health and other information which must be provided in terms of Article 4 of the Act by a sunbed operator, seller or hirer of sunbeds, to a person who proposes to use, hire or buy a sunbed and the form in which that information must be provided.

Regulation 3 prescribes the content and form of the notice to be displayed in sunbed premises in accordance with section 5 of the Act.

These regulations were notified in draft to the European Commission in accordance with Directive 98/34/EC, as amended by Directive 98/48/EC.