Clause 2

Part of Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:45 pm on 10 February 2010.

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Photo of Julie Morgan Julie Morgan Labour, Cardiff North 4:45, 10 February 2010

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. She certainly makes a powerful point about the success of similar legislation, particularly in France. The Irish Government have said that they want to introduce legislation on the issue, and I think that they  are consulting on that at the moment. In Scotland, as we know, action has already been taken to prohibit sunbed use among under-18s and the unsupervised use of sunbeds, and there is also a duty to display information. That legislation was implemented on 1 December 2009. To sum up on clause 2, this is a very important bit of legislation that is urgently needed to protect our young people.