(1)  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –

child means a person under the age of 18 years;

commercial operator means –

(a) a person who is not a self-employed sex worker and who, whether alone or with another person, operates, owns, manages or is in day-to-day control of a sexual services business; and

(b) if the person referred to in paragraph (a) is a corporation or a body corporate, a director, within the meaning of the Corporations Act, of that corporation or body corporate;

commercial sexual services business means a sexual services business operated or managed by a commercial operator;

prophylactic means a condom or other device used to prevent the transmission of a sexually transmissible infection;

self-employed sex worker means –

(a) a sex worker who solely owns and operates a sexual services business; or

(b) a sex worker who, together with no more than one other sex worker, neither of whom employs or manages the other, owns and operates a sexual services business;

sex worker means a person who provides sexual services in a sexual services business;

sexual intercourse means sexual intercourse as defined in section 1 of the Criminal Code ;

sexual services means –

(a) an act of sexual intercourse; or

(b) any activity where there is any form of direct physical contact between 2 or more persons for the purpose of the sexual gratification of one or more of those persons including, without limitation, the masturbation of one person by another;

sexual services business means a business providing sexual services for fee or reward;

sexually transmissible infection means an infection that is transmitted through sexual contact between people, including the following:

(a) syphilis;

(b) gonorrhoea;

(c) chlamydia;

(d) human immunodeficiency virus;

(e) hepatitis;

(f) any other prescribed infection.

(2)  For the purpose of the definition of “commercial operator” in subsection (1) , a reference to a commercial operator is a reference to –

(a) a person who determines any one or more of the following:

(i) when or where a sex worker will work;

(ii) the conditions in which a sex worker will work;

(iii) the amount of money, or proportion of an amount of money, that a sex worker will receive as payment for sexual services; or

(b) a person who employs, supervises or is in day-to-day control of any person referred to in paragraph (a) .