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Health and beauty licence fees

Schedule of fees and charges for health protection and hairdresser’s licences

The fees and charges included in this section apply to businesses providing a service that:

pierces the skin
risks breaking the skin
risks burning the skin.

Low risk (single or multiple basic service)

Exfoliation
Manicure and pedicure
Sun beds
Hair removal.

High risk (single or multiple high risk service)

Acupuncture/Cupping/Moxibustion
Electrolysis
Derma rolling / Stamping
Laser treatment/pulsed light
Tattooing
Body piercing
Extractions
Red vein treatment
Traditional tool tattooing.

We will assess and register businesses as providing either a single basic service, multiple basic services, single high-risk service or multiple high-risk services.

Only one annual fee is needed for each licensee.

Health licence fees are non-refundable and are not pro-rated.

Our tip

Under the Health and Hygiene Bylaw 2013, members of the New Zealand Register of Acupuncturists (Acupuncture NZ) or the New Zealand Acupuncture Standards Authority (NZASA) are exempt from our licensing and code of practice requirements.

Health protection licence fees

Read fee table.
Category	Fee (incl. GST)
Single basic service - A single service which is categorised as a risk of breaking or burning skin.	$312
Single high-risk service - A single service categorised as piercing the skin, such as acupuncture, body piercing , derma rolling, electrolysis, extractions, red vein treatment, pulse light or laser treatment, stamping, tattooing or traditional tattooing.	$508
Multiple basic services - More than one service which is categorised as a risk of breaking or burning skin.	$419
Multiple high-risk services - More than one service categorised as piercing the skin, like acupuncture, body piercing, derma rolling, electrolysis, extractions, red vein treatment, pulse light or laser treatment, stamping, tattooing/traditional tattooing.	$508

Note:

If our Environmental Health Officer (EHO) finds any health and hygiene issues, they will work with operators to resolve them within an agreed timeframe.

If this involves follow-up work, you will be charged based on our current hourly rate.

We will invoice you for these costs after the situation has been resolved.

Hourly rates

Read fee table.
Description	Hourly rate (incl. GST)
Technical Level 1: Planning, Urban design, Compliance, Monitoring, Investigation, Environmental health, Licensing, Building – Residential 1, other	$195
Technical Level 2: Building – Residential 2, 3 and Commercial 1, Planning, Engineering, Monitoring, Subdivisions, other – All Senior, Intermediate	$222
Technical Level 3: All areas – Manager, Project lead, Legal services, Team Leaders, Principals, Building - Commercial 2 and 3, Fire Engineers and Premium Service	$234
Administration (all areas)	$123

Notes to the table:

All work is performed by council officers. Position titles vary across the Auckland Council regulatory departments.
Charges apply to environmental health and bylaw licensing services including health protection, hairdressers and the remainder of environmental health and licensing.

Hairdresser business licence

The annual licensing fee for a hairdressing business is the same across the region. We charge a standard annual fee for all hairdresser business licences regardless of when you apply.

The fee covers the cost of inspections and is non-refundable.

There are no separate inspection fees, unless there is significant non-compliance.

Read fee table.
Licence	Fee (incl. GST)
Hairdresser licence	$294