4th Session, 41st Legislature
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Bill 241
THE PUBLIC HEALTH AMENDMENT ACT (BANNING COSMETIC EYE TATTOOING AND EYE JEWELLERY)
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(Assented to )
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:
The Public Health Act is amended by this Act.
The following is added after section 76:
PART 7.1
COSMETIC EYE PROCEDURES
Cosmetic eye tattoos and eye jewellery
No person shall sell, offer for sale or provide, any of the following:
(a) scleral tattooing;
(b) implantation of eye jewellery under the conjunctiva.
Subsection (1) does not apply to a member of a health profession who
(a) is regulated under The Regulated Health Professions Act or under an Act listed in Schedule 2 of The Regulated Health Professions Act; and
(b) complies with all applicable requirements established by their health profession.
Section 108 is amended by striking out "Parts 3 to 7" and substituting "Parts 3 to 7.1".
This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.