Commentary on Sections Part 4.Special Procedures Section 62 - Licensing criteria
111.This section requires the Welsh Ministers to make regulations that set out the licensing criteria. The licensing criteria will set out all the requirements that must be met in order for an application for a special procedure licence to be granted. There must be licensing criteria which relate to an individual’s (an “applicant”) knowledge of –
	infection control and first aid, in the context of the special procedure to which the application relates;
	duties imposed, under or by virtue of Part 4 of this Act, on a person authorised to perform the special procedure to which the application relates. An example of these duties is the requirements for age verification in relation to tattooing and intimate piercing.
112.The licensing criteria may, amongst other things, relate to an individual’s eligibility for a licence; the premises or vehicle from which a special procedure is to be performed and the equipment used in (or in connection with) the performance of a special procedure.
113.The licensing criteria may also cover such things as standards of competence to perform a special procedure. This may include the applicable training undertaken by the applicant or their knowledge of the special procedure.
114.Regulations made under this section may require the local authority to undertake an inspection of the premises or vehicle identified in the application before a licence is issued or renewed. This is to enable the local authority to determine the premises’ or vehicle’s compliance with the licensing criteria. The regulations may also make different provision for different descriptions of premises and vehicles; for different special procedures; and for the different circumstances in which a special procedure is performed. These circumstances may include the frequency, regularity or period during which a procedure is performed. The licensing criteria may also address the basis upon which the special procedure will be performed, and specify the requirements in relation to each practice.
115.The basis upon which a special procedure is performed are: on a peripatetic basis (i.e. the applicant plans to practice a special procedure in various different premises, for example clients’ homes); on a fixed site basis (for example from a specified clinic or studio); on a mobile basis (if the special procedure is performed in a vehicle); or on a temporary basis (if the special procedure will be performed in the course of an entertainment, exhibition or other event that does not exceed seven days). The regulations will therefore set out the criteria that must be met in relation to the practice of all special procedures, in all settings.