{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sunbeds-regulation-act-2010/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sunbeds-regulation-act-2010/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/20",
  "legislation_title": "Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sunbeds-regulation-act-2010",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Duty to prevent sunbed use by children",
  "text": "(1) A person who carries on a sunbed business (“P”) must secure—\n(a) that no person aged under 18 uses on relevant premises a sunbed to which the business relates;\n(b) that no offer is made by P or on P's behalf to make a sunbed to which the business relates available for use on relevant premises by a person aged under 18;\n(c) that no person aged under 18 is at any time present, otherwise than in the course of providing services to P for the purposes of the business, in a restricted zone.\n(2) In this section “relevant premises” means premises which—\n(a) are occupied by P or are to any extent under P's management or control, and\n(b) are not domestic premises.\n(3) Subsections (4) and (5) have effect for determining what is for the purposes of subsection (1)(c) a “restricted zone”.\n(4) If a sunbed to which the business relates is in a wholly or partly enclosed space on relevant premises that is reserved for users of that sunbed, every part of that space is a restricted zone.\n(5) If a sunbed to which the business relates is in a room on relevant premises, but not in a space falling within subsection (4), every part of that room is a restricted zone.\n(6) If P fails to comply with subsection (1), P commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine.\n(7) It is a defence for a person (“D”) charged with an offence under this section to show that D took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing it.\n(8) This section is subject to section 3 (exemption for medical treatment).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(6) substituted (12.3.2015) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/664), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 44 (with reg. 5(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/20/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:00.509928+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}