3rd Session, 42nd Legislature

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Bill 221

THE PUBLIC HEALTH AMENDMENT ACT (BANNING COSMETIC EYE TATTOOING AND EYE JEWELLERY)

(Assented to                                         )

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

C.C.S.M. c. P210 amended

1

The Public Health Act is amended by this Act.

2

The following is added after section 76:

PART 7.1

COSMETIC EYE PROCEDURES

Cosmetic eye tattoos and eye jewellery

76.1(1)

No person shall sell, offer for sale or provide, any of the following:

(a) scleral tattooing;

(b) implantation of eye jewellery under the conjunctiva.

Exception

76.1(2)

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.

3

Section 108 is amended by striking out "Parts 3 to 7" and substituting "Parts 3 to 7.1".

Coming into force

4

This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.