{"id":1937,"date":"2011-04-14T13:26:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T12:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2011-04-14T13:26:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T12:26:18","slug":"baring-barred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Baring barred"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1938\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Sunbeds-subject-to-strict-control.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Sunbeds-subject-to-strict-control-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Sunbeds subject to strict control<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2010\/20\/introduction\">Sunbeds Regulation Act 2010<\/a><\/strong> now in force, means that under 18 year olds are no longer allowed to purchase time on a sunbed.<\/p>\n<p>Six per cent of 11 to 17-year-olds in England previously used sunbeds, rising to 50% of 15 to 17-year-olds girls in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>Sunbeds increase the risk of getting skin cancer, with an estimated 100 deaths a year as a result.  Two people under 35 are diagnosed with the deadliest form of skin cancer every day in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses who fail to comply with the new rules could be fined up to \u00a320,000 if they allow anyone under 18 to use their sunbeds.<\/p>\n<p>In Wales, from 31 October, sunbed use will have to be supervised, under-18s will not be able to buy or hire beds themselves and all adults will have to wear protective eyewear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunbeds subject to strict control The Sunbeds Regulation Act 2010 now in force, means that under 18 year olds are no longer allowed to purchase time on a sunbed. Six per cent of 11 to 17-year-olds in England previously used sunbeds, rising to 50% of 15 to 17-year-olds girls in some areas. Sunbeds increase the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}