Sunbeds (Restriction) (Repeal) Bill 2021

#Sunbeds (Restriction) (Repeal) Bill

 

*A Bill to repeal the provisions of the Sunbeds (Restriction) Act 2016 and the prohibition of advertising of sunbeds and sunbed services.*

 

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

 

**1 Repeal of the Sunbeds (Restriction) Act 2016**

The Sunbeds (Restriction) Act 2016 is repealed.

 

**2 Extent, short title and commencement**

(1) This Act extends to the whole of the United Kingdom.

(2) This Act comes into force on the day of royal assent.

(3) This Act may be cited as the Sunbeds (Restriction) (Repeal) Act 2021.

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This Bill was submitted by the Rt Hon. Lord Branxton KD CB CVO KBE MP AM on behalf of the Libertarian Party UK.

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Mr Deputy Speaker,

I need not remind the members of the House the legal status of a great many recreational drugs. Where we have legalised and liberated the supply and consumption of narcotics including ketamine, methadone and morphine - it is the most absurd double standard that sunbeds are treated as a dirty underground industry. A black market where those who use sunbeds are stigmatised and treated with contempt.

Moreover I cannot understand why the advertising of sunbeds has been banned where the advertising of products such as alcohol have not. Although we must promote the responsible use of sunbeds we must raise the use of sunbeds to the same legal ground as the supply and consumption of alcohol rather than pick and choose which behaviour we approve of as if we exist in some sort of paternalist dystopia. We must put this right. And, if we are to treat our constituents as rational and responsible adults capable of making their own decisions we must condemn the Sunbeds (Restriction) Act to the rubbish heap. That is why I ask for the support of this House.