Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 96A

96A Advertising social escort services

(1) A person must not publish an advertisement for social escort services that does not, by the use of the words ‘non-sexual’ or ‘sexual services are not provided’, unequivocally state that the services are not sexual or that sexual services are not provided.

(2) A person must not publish an advertisement for social escort services that is not in the approved form.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty for subsections (1) and (2) —

(a) if an internet website has been established for the advertisement—

(i) if the cost of establishing the website is $1,000 or less—70 penalty units; and

(ii) if the cost of establishing the website is more than $1,000—an amount that is 10 times the commercial cost of establishing the website; or

(b) otherwise—

(i) if the cost of publishing the advertisement is $1,000 or less—70 penalty units; or

(ii) if the cost of publishing the advertisement is more than $1,000—an amount that is 10 times the cost of publishing the advertisement.