Jersey exempts non-resident medical-equipment servicing from licence

Jersey has added a new licensing exemption for non-resident businesses that repair or maintain medical equipment.Jerseylaw The Control of Housing and Work (Licences and Exemptions) (Jersey) Amendment Order 2026 inserts a new paragraph 7 into Schedule 2 to the 2026 Licences and Exemptions OrderJerseylaw: repairing or maintaining medical equipment is an exempt business activity for a non-resident business during a 12-month period if the business is carried out in Jersey for 60 days or less in that period and the activity is performed on behalf of the Minister for Health and Social Services, or under an arrangement with that MinisterJerseylaw. The Order was made on 25 September 2026 and comes into force 7 days after it is made, on 2 October 2026Jerseylaw.

The effect of Schedule 2 status is set by Article 5 of the principal Order.Jerseylaw A person carrying on a business in Jersey is exempt from the requirement to hold an appropriate licence to operate the business if the business involves only exempt business activities or activities reasonably incidental to them.Jerseylaw For a non-resident business, the appropriate licence would otherwise be a non-resident business licence.Jerseylaw The new paragraph therefore lets qualifying medical-equipment servicing businesses operate without that licence, provided both conditions — the 60-day ceiling and the Minister link — are met together.Jerseylaw

The exemption is deliberately narrow. It applies only to non-resident businesses, only to repairing or maintaining medical equipment, and only where the work is done for or under an arrangement with the health Minister.Jerseylaw A non-resident business servicing private customers, or working beyond 60 days in Jersey in the 12-month period, falls outside it and remains subject to the ordinary licensing requirement.Jerseylaw The 10-day general exemption for short business presence continues to sit alongside it for other cases, but the new paragraph gives a longer, purpose-specific window for this health-system work.

The same Order makes a second, textual change: in Schedule 2 paragraph 2, the phrase "that is managed by" becomes "that is administered or managed by", widening the description of activities administered or managed by a person carrying out regulated activities so that administration as well as management falls within that existing exemption for non-resident businesses.

For advisers, the compliance check is threefold: confirm the business is non-resident, count Jersey days within the 12-month period against the 60-day cap, and evidence the Minister mandate or arrangement. Contractors should keep day-counts and the arrangement documentation, since both define the boundary of the exemption.

Legal basis: Control of Housing and Work (Licences and Exemptions) (Jersey) Amendment Order 2026 , amending the Control of Housing and Work (Licences and Exemptions) (Jersey) Order 2026Jerseylaw, made under regs 23 and 25 of the Control of Housing and Work (Residential and Employment Status) (Jersey) Regulations 2025.