Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 73

73 Public soliciting for purposes of prostitution

(1) A person must not publicly solicit for prostitution.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) for a first offence—15 penalty units; or

(b) for a second offence—25 penalty units; or

(c) for a third or subsequent offence—30 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.

(2) A person publicly solicits for prostitution if, for that purpose, the person—

(a) solicits a person who is in a public place; or

(b) solicits a person at a place within the view or hearing of a person who is in a public place; or

(c) loiters in or near a public place; or

(d) loiters in a place that can be viewed from a public place.

(3) Subsection (1) applies equally to—

(a) males and females; and

(b) prostitutes and their clients; and

(c) persons acting for prostitutes; and

(d) persons acting for clients of prostitutes.

(4) In this section—

"solicit" includes the following—

(a) offer to provide prostitution;

(b) accept an offer to provide prostitution.