Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 90

90 Prostitute working while infective with a disease

(1) A person must not work as a prostitute at a licensed brothel during any period in which the person knows he or she is infective with a sexually transmissible disease.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 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 prostitute is taken to have known that he or she was infective with a sexually transmissible disease, unless the prostitute proves that, at the time the offence is alleged to have been committed, he or she—

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

(b) believed on reasonable grounds that he or she was not infective with a sexually transmissible disease.

(4) A prostitute must not, for the purpose of prostitution, use the fact that the prostitute has been medically examined or tested, or the results of the examination or test, 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.