(1) The Board may grant an application, with or without conditions or refuse to grant an application.
(2) The Board before granting a licence shall cause the proposed premises to be inspected by an environmental health officer who shall make a report to the Board in the form set out in Form 2 of Schedule 1.
(3) The Board may refuse to grant a licence if, in the opinion of the Board —
(a) the past conduct of the applicant or licensee affords reasonable grounds to believe that the operation of the body art facility would not be carried out in accordance with these Regulations;
(b) the applicant or licensee does not have or will not have available premises, facilities and equipment necessary to operate a body art facility in accordance with these Regulations;
(c) the Board is of the opinion that the premises in respect of which an application has been made is in an unsanitary condition;
(d) the applicant or licensee does not comply or will not be able to comply with these Regulations; or
(e) the operation of the body art facility represents or will represent a risk to human health.
(4) Without prejudice to the generality of subregulation (1), the Board may grant a licence subject to the following conditions —
(a) a body art facility must be constructed and maintained in a manner that no condition exists that is a risk to human health;
(b) a body art facility must have appropriate maintenance, cleaning, sterilization and sanitation programmes to control physical, chemical and biological contamination of equipment, surfaces and tools used for body art services, as required by these Regulations; and
(c) a person who is known to be a carrier of a communicable disease or a notifiable disease or infected with a communicable disease, a notifiable disease or a disease shall not participate in a body art service.
(5) If the Board grants an application with conditions or refuses an application, the Board shall state the reasons for the conditions or refusal.