Public Health (Sunbeds) Act 2014

Protective eyewear

7. (1) The owner, manager or employee of a sunbed business shall—

(a) make protective eyewear available to a person who proposes to use, purchase or hire a sunbed,

(b) ensure that a person who uses a sunbed on the sunbed premises concerned wears protective eyewear, and

(c) ensure, where the eyewear referred to in paragraph (a) is single use eyewear, such eyewear is disposed of after use, or

(d) ensure, where the eyewear referred to in paragraph (a) is multi-use eyewear, such eyewear is appropriately sanitised before re-use.

(2) The owner or manager of a sunbed business shall retain for such period as the protective eyewear concerned is available for use, and in any event for a period of not less than 2 years, on the sunbed premises for the purpose of inspection by an authorised officer, documentary evidence that protective eyewear made available in accordance with subsection (1)(a) complies with the required standard.

(3) A person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence.

(4) In this section—

protective eyewear” means eyewear, designed to protect the eyes of a person using a sunbed from ultra-violet radiation, which complies with the required standard;

required standard” means the standard for protective eyewear included in the European harmonised standards published from time to time by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) or the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC).