The Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Commerce, the Health and Wellness Committee, the General Administration of Market Supervision, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the All-China Women's Federation have reached an agreement to strengthen the management of minors' tattoos and protect their physical and mental health. On June 6, 2022, the Office of the Leading Group for the Protection of Minors in the State Council issued the Measures for the Administration of Tattoos for Minors.
The Measures point out that the state, society, schools and families should educate and help minors to establish and practice socialist core values, fully understand the possible harm caused by tattoos, enhance their awareness and ability of self-protection, and rationally refuse tattoos. Parents or other guardians of minors who have the motivation and behavior of tattooing minors shall dissuade them in time and shall not allow minors to tattoo.
The Measures stipulate that no enterprise, organization or individual may provide tattoo services to minors, and may not coerce, seduce or instigate minors to get tattoos. Professional tattoo institutions and medical and health institutions (including medical and beauty institutions), beauty salons and social organizations that provide tattoo services shall indicate in a prominent position that they do not provide tattoo services to minors. If it is difficult to determine whether they are minors, they shall be required to show their identity documents.
The Measures clearly stipulate that the principle of "who approves, who supervises, who is in charge and who supervises" shall be strictly implemented. The health department shall not approve medical and health institutions (including medical beauty institutions) to provide tattoo services for minors; For minors who have tattoos before and are willing to "remove tattoos", standardized medical beauty services should be provided. When handling the registration of market entities, the market supervision department shall clearly mark "except minors" on the business license of market entities engaged in tattoo service activities. The commercial department shall cooperate with relevant departments, guide trade associations, and urge beauty operators not to provide tattoo services to minors. Civil affairs departments should strengthen the registration management of social organizations and may not approve social organizations to carry out tattoo services for minors.
The Measures require that the people's courts, people's procuratorates, education, public security, judicial administration, Communist Youth League organizations, women's federations and other departments should perform their duties, support and cooperate with the development of tattoo management for minors; The departments in charge of publicity, online information, radio and television should strengthen the publicity and public opinion supervision on the harm of tattoo of minors; Leading groups (committees) for the protection of minors at all levels should do a good job in overall planning, coordination, supervision and guidance.
The "Measures" propose that no enterprise, organization or individual may publish, broadcast, post or distribute advertisements containing contents that induce minors to get tattoos and endanger their physical and mental health; Do not broadcast, post or distribute tattooed commercial advertisements in schools and kindergartens. Books, newspapers, periodicals and electronic publications. It shall not contain any content that induces minors to get tattoos.
The Measures require that any enterprise, organization or individual who finds that tattoo services are provided to minors may report to the departments of civil affairs, commerce, health and market supervision, and the relevant departments that receive the report shall promptly accept and dispose of them.
The "Measures" clarify that if tattoo service providers provide tattoo services to minors in violation of regulations, the relevant departments will handle them in accordance with relevant regulations; If other market entities fail to obtain business licenses according to law to provide tattoo services to minors, they shall be investigated and dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Measures for the Investigation of Unlicensed Business; Individuals who provide tattoo services for minors without authorization in violation of regulations shall be investigated for legal responsibility according to law.
The "Measures" emphasize that strengthening the tattoo management of minors is a systematic project, which requires the joint management of families, schools, society, the Internet, the government and judicial organs, strengthening unified deployment, strengthening source prevention and control, implementing departmental responsibilities, promoting social coordination, promoting the implementation of tattoo management of minors, and effectively protecting the legitimate rights and interests of minors.
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Measures for the administration of tattoos of minors
Article 1 These Measures are formulated in order to thoroughly implement the Civil Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Protection of Minors, adhere to the principle of being most beneficial to minors, comprehensively strengthen the tattoo management of minors, protect their legitimate rights and interests, and promote their healthy growth.
Article 2 The state, society, schools and families should educate and help minors to establish and practice socialist core values, fully understand the possible harm caused by tattoos, enhance their awareness and ability of self-protection, and rationally refuse tattoos.
Article 3 Parents or other guardians of minors shall perform their guardianship duties according to law, educate and guide minors to engage in activities that are beneficial to their physical and mental health, dissuade minors from tattooing motivation and behavior in time, and shall not allow minors to tattoo.
Article 4 No enterprise, organization or individual may provide tattoo service for minors, or coerce, entice or instigate minors to get tattoos.
Article 5 Tattoo service providers shall indicate in a prominent position that they will not provide tattoo services to minors. If it is difficult to determine whether they are minors, they shall be required to show their identity documents.
The tattoo service providers mentioned in these Measures mainly refer to professional tattoo institutions, medical and health institutions (including medical beauty institutions) and beauty salons, as well as social organizations that provide tattoo services.
Article 6 All relevant departments should improve the working mechanism and strengthen the source control according to the principle of "who approves, who supervises, who is in charge and who supervises".
The health department shall not approve medical and health institutions (including medical beauty institutions) to provide tattoo services for minors. Strengthen supervision and guidance, and guide medical and health institutions (including medical and beauty institutions) not to provide tattoo services to minors, and provide standardized medical and beauty services to minors who are willing to "remove tattoos".
When handling the registration of market entities, market supervision departments should clearly mark "except minors" after the relevant business scope of their business licenses, and guide them to consciously operate according to regulations.
The commercial department shall cooperate with relevant departments, guide trade associations, and urge beauty operators not to provide tattoo services to minors.
The civil affairs department shall strengthen the registration management of social organizations, and shall not approve social organizations to provide tattoo services for minors, and instruct social organizations engaged in tattoo services not to provide tattoo services for minors.
Seventh relevant departments should perform their duties, give full play to their advantages, strengthen the support and cooperation for the tattoo management of minors, and form an overall synergy.
The people's court shall try cases that provide tattoo services for minors or coerce, seduce or abet minors to get tattoos, thus infringing on their legitimate rights and interests.
The people's procuratorate may urge and support minors whose legitimate rights and interests have been violated because of tattoos, and if the relevant organizations and individuals fail to file a lawsuit on their behalf; Involving public interests, have the right to bring a public interest lawsuit.
The education department should incorporate the knowledge about the harm of minors' tattoos into the contents of school education, organize warning education, strengthen the education of civilization and etiquette, and improve students' understanding of the harm of tattoos.
The public security organ shall investigate and deal with violations of public security management or suspected criminal cases caused by coercion, inducement and instigation of minor tattoos according to law.
The judicial administrative department should strengthen the publicity and education of the rule of law on minor tattoos, support and guide relevant departments to carry out administrative law enforcement, and improve the relevant complaint reporting system.
* * * The Communist Youth League organizations should strengthen ideological and moral guidance for teenagers, organize targeted educational guidance and psychological counseling, and let minors realize the possible harm and adverse effects of tattoos.
Women's federations should incorporate the harm of tattoo of minors into the important content of family education, and guide and support the parents or other guardians of minors to earnestly perform their duties.
Propaganda, online information, radio and television and other competent departments should strengthen the publicity and public opinion supervision on the harm of tattoo of minors.
Leading groups (committees) for the protection of minors at all levels shall make overall planning, coordination, supervision and guidance.
Article 8 Books, newspapers, films, radio and television programs, works of stage art, audio-visual products, electronic publications or online information published, distributed and disseminated by any enterprise, organization or individual shall not contain any content that induces minors to get tattoos.
Article 9 No enterprise, organization or individual may publish, broadcast, post or distribute advertisements that induce minors to get tattoos and endanger their physical and mental health. Do not broadcast, post or distribute tattooed commercial advertisements in schools and kindergartens.
Article 10 Any enterprise, organization or individual who finds that tattoo services are provided to minors may report to the departments of civil affairs, commerce, health and market supervision, and the relevant departments that receive the report shall promptly accept and dispose of them.
Eleventh all localities and relevant departments should strengthen supervision and inspection, and intensify investigation and punishment. Tattoo service providers who provide tattoo services to minors in violation of regulations shall be handled by relevant departments in accordance with relevant regulations. If other market entities fail to obtain business licenses according to law to provide tattoo services for minors, they shall be investigated and dealt with in accordance with the Measures for Investigating and Handling Unlicensed Business. Individuals who provide tattoo services for minors without authorization in violation of regulations shall be investigated for their legal responsibilities according to law.
Twelfth local departments can formulate specific measures according to these measures, combined with the actual work.
Thirteenth these Measures shall come into force as of the date of issuance.