Sections 95(1) and 96(1) and (2) of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (“the Act”) provide for offences of allowing use of, selling or hiring a sunbed to a person under 18.
Sections 95(2) and 96(3) provide for a defence to such charges. The defence is that the accused believed the customer to be 18 or over and had been shown a document appearing to be a passport, EU photocard driving licence or other prescribed document and that the document shown would have convinced a reasonable person as to the customer’s age.
Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (Sunbed) Regulations 2009 which prescribed only (b) below. The prescribed forms of acceptable identification are now—
a Defence Identity Card issued by the Ministry of Defence;
a photographic identity card bearing the national Proof of Age Standards Scheme hologram;
a national identity card issued by an EU state (other than the UK), Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Switzerland; and
a Biometric Immigration Document.