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SEX INDUSTRY OFFENCES ACT 2005 - SECT 12

Sex workers and clients to adopt safe sex practices

(1)  A person must not, in a sexual services business, provide or receive any sexual services that involve sexual intercourse, or any other activity with a similar or greater risk of acquiring or transmitting a sexually transmissible infection, unless a prophylactic is used.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 500 penalty units.
(2)  A person, while providing or receiving, in a sexual services business, sexual services that involve sexual intercourse, or any other activity with a similar or greater risk of acquiring or transmitting a sexually transmissible infection, must not –
(a) discourage the use of prophylactics; or
(b) misuse, damage or interfere with the efficacy of any prophylactic used; or
(c) continue to use a prophylactic that he or she knows, or could reasonably be expected to know, is damaged.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 500 penalty units.
(3)  A person who provides or receives sexual services in a sexual services business must take all reasonable steps to minimise the risk of acquiring or transmitting a sexually transmissible infection.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 500 penalty units.


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