Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 96B

96B Clients of social escort services to be informed that prostitution is not provided

(1) An employee of a social escort provider must not arrange for the provision of a social escort service to a person unless the employee has clearly informed the person that the social escort service does not include the provision of prostitution.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—70 penalty units.

(2) A social escort must not start to provide a social escort service to a person unless the social escort has clearly informed the person that the social escort service does not include the provision of prostitution.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—70 penalty units

(3) A social escort provider commits an offence if—

(a) a person enters into an arrangement for the provision of a social escort service to the person, or has been provided with a social escort service; and

(b) the person has not been clearly informed by the social escort provider, an employee of the social escort provider or by the social escort that the social escort service does not include the provision of prostitution.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—70 penalty units.

(4) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (3) , it is a defence for the social escort provider to prove that—

(a) the provider issued appropriate instructions to the provider’s employees and to the relevant social escort and used all reasonable precautions to ensure compliance with subsection (3) ; and

(b) the offence was committed by an employee or the social escort without the provider’s knowledge; and

(c) the provider could not, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, have prevented the commission of the offence.

(5) In this section—

"arrange" means enter into an arrangement of a commercial character.