Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readIn Australia, a patient under 18 must wait at least three months before cosmetic surgery and at least seven days before a non-surgical cosmetic procedure such as injectables. The rules sit in two separate regulator guidelines, in force since 2023 and 2 September 2025, and both reach into a clinic's website and ads.
Vikas Thakur / / 8 min readA tick box saying "I am over 18" collects nothing and proves nothing. AHPRA's guidelines carry targeted advertising bans protecting young people and a mandatory seven-day cooling off for under-18s. Both need a real date of birth, captured early.
Vikas Thakur / / 8 min readAHPRA's guidelines, in effect from 2 September 2025, introduced a mandatory seven-day cooling off period for people under 18 having non-surgical cosmetic procedures. Most booking systems cannot express that rule at all. Here is what the flow has to do.