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PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 96B
Clients of social escort services to be informed that prostitution is not provided
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.
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