New law to require Australians to register tattoos

[the_hawk*]

And many said this new laws would only affect criminals  yer yer more lies for our elected representatives who seem to think they are dictators

http://akashictimes.co.uk/new-law-to-require-australians-to-register-tattoos/

[not_an_eloi]

news to me.

aye, janine griffiths, editor and founder of the akashic times, 'ow about some support links to verify yore story 

[spotweldersfriend]

What happens if your tattios aren't registered? Do they slap a 'yellow canary' on your forehead ?

[cherry*135]

If a person has had a tattoo for 10, 20, 30+ years, which can't be seen when dressed.. how would the Govt know they had one?

[spotweldersfriend]

Do temporary tattoos have to be temporarily registered? What about third party insurance? 🙂

[lis351]

😄

[azureline**]

This whole thing gets funnier and funnier.

[boris1gary]

Hawk, I don't see what's so funny about it - even if the article you refer to has gotten it wrong, I wouldn't be at all surprised at anything the NSW State Govt headed by that slob of a thing O'barrel does - we have already lost our right to silence, one of the longest held legal conventions in this country, the long established right of spousal priviledge, gone.

NSW Worker's Compensation not only stripped back to making it slightly next to useless, those laws were then made retrospective - affecting injured workers back to the year dot. There are quite a few others - so don't be at all surprised if what the op is saying does eventuate.

[**meep**]

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@am*3 wrote:

Those links are about QLD.

The link in the opening post says NSW. The UK article, is about the NSW Tattoo parlour registration law. Not people registration!

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It mentions that similar laws are being proposed in QLD.....

A law has been passed in New South Wales, Australia which requires those with tattoos to register their tattoos to the state government.

Gold Coast MP for Mermaid Beach, Ray Stevens, who put the proposal to State Parliament last Thursday, said bikie-related crime is a huge concern for his electorate.

The registry would force people wanting tattoos to register their intentions with the Government, in an attempt to stop bikie-related tattoo parlours taking receipts for fake customers.

"Under the Health Act there should be a register of people getting tattoos so that we can identify those people getting tattoos,"

[punch*drunk]

So they dont care so much about the tattoos, they are trying to stop the money laundering. Fair enough, wouldnt be an easy thing to do though.

Perhaps a requirement for tattoo parlours to keep a copy of the persons id along with a record of where and what was tattooed? And perhaps only for work over a certain dollar value? Its going to make it a lot harder to launder the money if the regulations are tighter and they have to try and process it in smaller transactions.

[boris1gary]

punch, "Fair enough" you say - do you say "Fair enough" to this -

The trouble with these kinds of laws that are supposedly designed to stop "criminal types" end up having far wider implications for all of us.........

From The Guardian CPA April 2013.

The right to meet other members of the public has now virtually disappeared, because of the “Consorting and Organised Crime” legislation, which permits the arrest of anyone who meets on more than one occasion with a person convicted of an indictable offence. Ostensibly aimed at preventing people from assisting criminal activity, in effect it criminalises anyone associating with that person – even members of his or her own family. The law is supposedly aimed at anyone dealing with organisations accused of criminal activity (such as bikie groups), but it may be applied even in cases where the person involved has no idea that those with whom he or she is dealing are involved in criminal activity.

The first person convicted under this law was a young man in a country town simply going to the shops with a friend who was a member of a declared organisation. Universal application of the law would place huge sections of the population at risk of prosecution, and its imposition at the discretion of the police is wide open to corruption.