Skin Piercing Licence

Form information

Acupuncture, Ear Piercing, Electrolysis, Semi-Permanent Skin Colouring, Skin Piercing and Tattooing Licences

You must register with us if you carry out any of the above mentioned skin piercing activities at your premises.

You only have to register once and will not have to pay any annual renewal fees.

The registration is:

  • issued to whoever fill in the application, and
  • is only valid at the premises that is stated in the application.

For more information about the legislation that covers this subject please visit

The National Archives Website

IMPORTANT - after submission of this form, you will be required to submit two photographs of the applicants in accordance with the instructions listed on our guidance page.

Massage and Special Treatment Guidance

Each page in this form has a 10 minute time limit. If you think you will need more time, write your answers in another document, then copy and paste them into the form. This helps ensure your information won't be lost.

Alternatively, you can sign in or register for a MySouthend account - this will allow you to save forms in progress and track the status of submitted forms.

Sign in  Register

Use the 'Previous' and 'Next' buttons to move through the form and select 'Submit form' on the last page.

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