Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 78

78 Brothel offences

(1) A person who is a licensee or an approved manager of a licensed brothel must not—

(a) provide prostitution under the licence at a place other than the brothel; or

(b) have more than 13 staff at the brothel at any 1 time; or

(c) provide prostitution at the brothel in contravention of any condition or restriction of a licence or a certificate; or

(d) provide prostitution at the brothel while the licensee’s licence is suspended.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 5 years imprisonment.

(2) A person who is a licensee or an approved manager of a licensed brothel that is, under the development permit for the licensed brothel, permitted to have a total number of rooms stated in schedule 3 , column 1, used for providing prostitution must not, at any 1 time, have at the licensed brothel more than the number of prostitutes set out opposite in schedule 3 , column 2.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 5 years imprisonment.

(3) In this section—

"staff" means the licensee, the approved manager, a person employed at the brothel, or a prostitute.