ClinicTrace Australia

Legislation and guidance register

Every source a nurse-led cosmetic or aesthetic clinic in Queensland is read against, in one place: the Acts and regulations, the regulators’ own guidance, the material a government department has published about how it reads a provision, and the standards the professions publish.

Each entry names the publisher, says how binding the source is, and carries the version that publisher states and the date the source was last read. Whether a source applies to a particular clinic, and what it means for that clinic, is a question for the clinic and its own advisers. Nothing here is legal advice.

62 sources across 12 categories. Last read 23 September 2026. Filter by what the clinic does, or search by an Act, a regulator, a treatment or a year.

How binding each source is

Legislation
An Act, a regulation, or an instrument made under one. This is the only grade that creates an obligation.
Regulator guidance
A regulator's published account of how it reads and applies the law it administers. It carries weight with that regulator and it is not the law itself.
A department's reading of the legislation
A government department's published interpretation. It sets out what the department thinks a provision means, and it is not the provision.
Professional standard
A standard, code or guideline published by a board or professional body. Its force comes from the profession rather than from an Act.

A source is listed at one grade only. Where a department has published its reading of an Act, the Act and the reading are listed separately and the Act is listed first. Stoneglow Digital checks every source in this register once a week and a person reads any change before it is recorded here.

What does the clinic do?

62 sources

Health practitioner regulation

Registration standards, codes and frameworks are published by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. The National Law itself is an Act, applied in this state as a schedule to a Queensland Act, and is listed at that grade.

  1. Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, section 133 (advertising of regulated health services)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 10 April 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The National Law is the schedule to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 (Qld) and is applied as a law of each state and territory, so the Queensland version is the one a Queensland clinic is read against.

  2. Guidelines for registered health practitioners who perform non-surgical cosmetic procedures

    Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    In effect from 2 September 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

  3. Registration standard: Continuing professional development

    Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Standard, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    In effect from 1 June 2016
    Last read
    23 September 2026

  4. Registration standard: Professional indemnity insurance arrangements

    Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Standard, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    In effect from 1 June 2016
    Last read
    23 September 2026

  5. Registration standard: Recency of practice

    Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Standard, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    In effect from 1 June 2016
    Last read
    23 September 2026

  6. Code of conduct for nurses

    Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Code, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Professional standard
    Version
    In effect from 1 March 2018
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    What changed

    • 1 March 2018In effect from 1 March 2018The Board's page states the code took effect on this date for all nurses in Australia.

  7. Decision-making framework for nursing and midwifery

    Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Professional standard
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

  8. Registered nurse standards for practice

    Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Standard, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Professional standard
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

Medicines and poisons

Queensland Health's material on medicines in beauty treatment and cosmetic businesses is listed as a department's reading of the legislation rather than as law. The department's position is that scheduled medicine stock sits in the exclusive custody and control of an authorised person. That phrase appears in the department's factsheet and not in the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 or the Medicines and Poisons (Medicines) Regulation 2021, and the department's reading of the possession provisions is contested. Both the legislation and the department's material are listed, and ClinicTrace takes no position on which reading is right.

  1. Extended practice authority: registered nurses

    Queensland Health. Legislative instrument, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Version 7, commencement 1 March 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The document states it was made under section 232 of the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 (Qld) by a delegate of the chief executive, so it is recorded as an instrument rather than as departmental commentary.

    What changed

    • 30 January 2026Version 7, date of approval 30 January 2026The cover gives 30 January 2026 as the date of approval, 1 March 2026 as the commencement date, and version 6 as the version it replaces.

  2. Medicines and Poisons (Medicines) Regulation 2021 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Regulation, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 1 March 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

  3. Medicines and Poisons (Poisons and Prohibited Substances) Regulation 2021 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Regulation, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 5 December 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The second regulation under the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019. It deals with poisons and prohibited substances rather than medicines, and is listed because a clinic reading only the Medicines Regulation has read half the subordinate legislation.

  4. Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 23 September 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The legislation, which is the only thing here that creates an obligation. Read alongside the Regulation and separately from the department's factsheet.

  5. Therapeutic Goods (Poisons Standard, June 2026) Instrument 2026

    Therapeutic Goods Administration. Legislative instrument, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Poisons Standard June 2026, made 27 May 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    F2026L00633. The Poisons Standard is remade several times a year, so the instrument in force changes name with it. It is the instrument that decides which schedule a substance sits in, which Queensland's own legislation then applies. Its Schedule 4 covers injectable tissue augmentation materials, and its Appendix A carves those materials out of the exemption that would otherwise cover a Class III medical device, so a filler can be both a device on the register of therapeutic goods and a scheduled medicine.

  6. Frequently asked questions: medicines in beauty treatment and cosmetic businesses

    Queensland Health. Factsheet, Queensland.

    How binding
    A department's reading of the legislation
    Version
    March 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Recorded as departmental interpretation, not as law. It answers questions about the department's factsheet and carries the same contested reading of custody and control, and its own opening states there has been no change to the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019. ClinicTrace records what a clinic does and takes no position on whether any arrangement satisfies the Act.

    What changed

    • March 2026Queensland Health issued earlier editions alongside the December 2024 and April 2025 factsheets.

  7. Key legislative requirements: registered nurses and enrolled nurses, Medicines and Poisons Act 2019

    Queensland Health. Factsheet, Queensland.

    How binding
    A department's reading of the legislation
    Version
    Revised March 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Recorded as departmental interpretation. It summarises the Act and the Medicines Regulation for nurses, and a summary is not the provision it summarises.

  8. Medicines in beauty treatment and cosmetic injectable businesses

    Queensland Health. Factsheet, Queensland.

    How binding
    A department's reading of the legislation
    Version
    15 April 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Recorded as departmental interpretation, not as law. The phrase 'exclusive custody and control' does not appear in the Act or the Regulation, and the department's reading is contested. ClinicTrace records what the clinic does and takes no position on whether it satisfies the Act.

    What changed

    • 15 April 202515 April 2025 revisionThe first page states the revision follows the initial release of December 2024 and the feedback after it.
    • December 2024, first releaseNamed by the current document.

  9. National Vaccine Storage Guidelines 'Strive for 5'

    Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Professional standard
    Version
    Publication date September 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

Infection prevention

  1. Public Health (Infection Control for Personal Appearance Services) (Infection Control Guidelines) Notice 2024 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Legislative instrument, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 8 August 2024
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The notice that makes Queensland Health's infection control guidelines an infection control guideline under the Act. The notice is the instrument; the guidelines are the document it names.

  2. Public Health (Infection Control for Personal Appearance Services) Act 2003 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 1 February 2024
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Administered by local government in Queensland, so the registration is obtained from the council rather than the department.

  3. Public Health (Infection Control for Personal Appearance Services) Regulation 2016 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Regulation, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 1 September 2016
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The subordinate legislation under the 2003 Act, covering licence applications, fees and the detail the Act leaves to regulation.

  4. Public Health Act 2005 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 3 September 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Carries Queensland's infection control obligations for health care facilities and its notifiable conditions framework, both of which sit outside the personal appearance services Act.

  5. Public Health Regulation 2018 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Regulation, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 3 September 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

  6. Infection control guidelines for personal appearance services

    Queensland Health. Code, Queensland.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    August 2024
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The document named by the 2024 notice. It is listed separately from the notice because the two move independently: the department can revise the guidelines and a new notice is what changes their status.

  7. Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare

    National Health and Medical Research Council. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Professional standard
    Version
    2019
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Updated in May 2019 with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, and maintained on MAGICapp, so the online version can be ahead of the PDF.

Radiation safety

  1. Radiation Safety (Radiation Safety Standards) Notice 2021 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Legislative instrument, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 1 September 2021
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The notice that names the radiation safety standards apparatus and premises are assessed against in Queensland.

  2. Radiation Safety Act 1999 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 23 September 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Possession and use are commonly separate licences, and the regulator describes each on its own page.

  3. Radiation Safety Regulation 2021 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Regulation, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 1 October 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The subordinate legislation under the Radiation Safety Act 1999, covering licences, dose limits and fees.

  4. Cosmetic laser use licence, commercial cosmetic laser practice

    Queensland Health. Published page, Queensland.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    Last updated 3 September 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The page specific to a commercial cosmetic laser practice, which is the licence class most aesthetic clinics deal with.

  5. Radiation licensing and regulation

    Queensland Health. Published page, Queensland.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    Last updated 10 August 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The regulator's own account of how Queensland radiation licences are applied for and held.

  6. Radiation Protection Series

    Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency. Standard, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Professional standard
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Published nationally and adopted selectively by the states, so the operative version for a Queensland clinic is whichever one Queensland's own standards notice names.

Privacy and records

  1. Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)

    Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Compilation No. 104, 4 June 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The Act behind the Australian Privacy Principles and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. It also carries the definitions that settle which organisations the principles reach, including how a small business providing a health service is treated, which is the part of the Act small operators reach for last.

  2. Australian Privacy Principles guidelines

    Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    Consolidated guidelines updated 13 May 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

  3. Notifiable Data Breaches scheme

    Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

  4. Privacy guidance for health service providers

    Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Published page, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The regulator's guidance written for health service providers specifically.

Work health and safety

  1. Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 3 August 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The Queensland work health and safety legislation, which sets the duties a business and its officers are read against.

  2. Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Regulation, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 29 March 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Carries the detail the Act leaves to regulation, including hazardous chemicals, first aid and consultation.

  3. Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 1 January 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The Act behind a Queensland employer's accident insurance policy and the rehabilitation obligations that follow a claim.

  4. Work health and safety obligations for Queensland businesses

    Workplace Health and Safety Queensland. Published page, Queensland.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    21 September 2026

    The Queensland regulator's own guidance on work health and safety duties, including its small business material.

Clinical and general waste

  1. Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 29 June 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The Act behind Queensland's regulated waste framework, which is where clinical waste and sharps are picked up.

  2. Environmental Protection Regulation 2019 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Regulation, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 21 June 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The regulation that categorises regulated waste, clinical waste included, and sets out how a generator classifies what it produces.

  3. Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 16 June 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Sits alongside the Environmental Protection Act and carries the waste levy and reporting framework.

  4. Regulated waste classification and management in Queensland

    Queensland Government (Business Queensland). Published page, Queensland.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The state's plain language account of how a business classifies its own waste.

Advertising

Two separate regulators sit over the same advertisement. Ahpra acts under the National Law. The Therapeutic Goods Administration acts under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 and the Advertising Code made under it. Reading one regulator's guidance does not describe the other regulator's rules, so both sets are listed separately, by publisher.

  1. Therapeutic Goods (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Instrument 2021

    Therapeutic Goods Administration. Legislative instrument, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Compilation No. 1, 20 December 2022
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    F2021L01661. A separate regulator from Ahpra, with its own offences: advice written from the Ahpra guidelines alone misses it. What is in force is a compilation, and the Federal Register states its compilation date.

    What changed

    • 20 December 2022Compilation No. 1The Federal Register records this compilation as taking in an amendment made by the Therapeutic Goods (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Instrument 2022.
    • 1 December 2021Compilation No. 0, registered 1 December 2021The instrument as made.

  2. Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth)

    Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Compilation No. 89, 5 September 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The Act the Advertising Code is made under, and the Act carrying the offence provisions for advertising restricted and prohibited representations. A separate Act from the National Law, enforced by a separate regulator.

  3. Advertising health services that involve therapeutic goods

    Therapeutic Goods Administration. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    Last updated 18 June 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The regulator's own guidance on where advertising a service becomes advertising the goods used in it. This is the boundary that advice written from the Ahpra guidelines alone tends to miss.

    What changed

    • 21 June 2022First published 21 June 2022The page states a publication date of 21 June 2022 and a last updated date of 18 June 2026.

  4. Applying the Advertising Code

    Therapeutic Goods Administration. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    Last updated 11 March 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The regulator's index to its guidance on the Advertising Code.

  5. Complying with the restrictions on advertising prescription medicines to the public

    Therapeutic Goods Administration. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    Last updated 23 June 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The regulator's guidance on the prescription medicine advertising restrictions, which is a Commonwealth matter and separate from what Ahpra can act on.

    What changed

    • 18 June 2026First published 18 June 2026The page states a publication date of 18 June 2026 and a last updated date of 23 June 2026.

  6. Guidelines for advertising a regulated health service

    Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Ahpra acts under the National Law. The rules on advertising the medicines and devices used in a service come from a separate regulator and are listed under that regulator's own name.

  7. Guidelines for registered health practitioners who advertise higher risk non-surgical cosmetic procedures

    Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Guideline, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    In effect from 2 September 2025
    Last read
    23 September 2026

Premises and local approvals

  1. Planning Act 2016 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 3 September 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The Act behind development approval, which is the process a council planning scheme runs when a tenancy changes use.

  2. Queensland Development Code, Mandatory Part 5.2: higher risk personal appearance services

    Queensland Government. Code, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The fit-out part of the Development Code that a higher risk personal appearance services premises is assessed against.

  3. Personal appearance services licence

    Brisbane City Council. Published page, Queensland.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Brisbane City Council administers the 2003 Act inside its own boundaries, so a clinic elsewhere in Queensland deals with a different council and a different page.

Employment records

  1. Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)

    Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Compilation No. 73, 7 July 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The Act carrying the employee records and pay slip obligations, at sections 535 and 536, and the framework modern awards are made under.

  2. Fair Work Regulations 2009 (Cth)

    Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Regulation, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Compilation No. 56, 20 June 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Lists, item by item, what an employee record holds and how long it is kept. The Act says records are kept; this says which ones.

  3. Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 1 January 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Listed because long service leave for employees in this state is dealt with in Queensland legislation as well as in the Fair Work Act, so a clinic reading only the Commonwealth Act has not read the whole subject.

  4. Nurses Award 2020 (MA000034)

    Fair Work Commission. Legislative instrument, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    One of the modern awards that can cover nursing staff. Whether this award or another covers a given employee is a question for the clinic and its adviser.

  5. Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth)

    Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Compilation No. 78, 1 July 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The Act behind employer superannuation contributions and the records kept of them.

  6. Employment obligations for small business

    Fair Work Ombudsman. Published page, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

  7. Record-keeping

    Fair Work Ombudsman. Published page, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The regulator's plain language account of the same obligations, including the seven year retention period.

Complaints

  1. Health Ombudsman Act 2013 (Qld)

    Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel. Act, Queensland.

    How binding
    Legislation
    Version
    Current as at 10 April 2026
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    This Act sets where a health service complaint is made in Queensland and how one moves between the Health Ombudsman and Ahpra. That pathway is a Queensland one and the other states arrange it differently, so guidance written for another state describes a different route.

  2. Office of the Health Ombudsman

    Office of the Health Ombudsman. Published page, Queensland.

    How binding
    Regulator guidance
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    The Queensland complaints body itself.

Clinical practice standards

  1. ANZCOR Guidelines

    Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation. Standard, Australia-wide.

    How binding
    Professional standard
    Version
    The publisher states none.
    Last read
    23 September 2026

    Revised section by section rather than as one dated edition, so a clinic confirms the current guideline for the specific protocol it is writing.