Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 89

89 Permitting prostitute infective with a disease to work in a licensed brothel

(1) A person who is a licensee or an approved manager of a licensed brothel must not permit a person to work as a prostitute at the brothel during any period in which the person knows the prostitute is infective with a sexually transmissible disease.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—120 penalty units.

(2) For subsection (1) , it does not matter whether the prostitute works under a contract of service or a contract for service.

(3) For subsection (1) , the licensee or manager is taken to have known that the prostitute was infective with a sexually transmissible disease, unless the licensee or manager proves that, at the time the offence is alleged to have been committed, the licensee or manager believed on reasonable grounds that the prostitute—

(a) had been medically examined or tested at intervals prescribed under a regulation to ascertain whether the prostitute was infective with a sexually transmissible disease; and

(b) was not infective with a sexually transmissible disease.

(4) A person who is a licensee or an approved manager of a licensed brothel must take reasonable steps to prevent the fact that a prostitute has been medically examined or tested, or the results of the examination or test, from being used to induce a client of the prostitute to believe that the prostitute is not infective with a sexually transmissible disease.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

(5) For subsection (4) , it does not matter whether the prostitute is or is not infective with a sexually transmissible disease.