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PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 - SECT 162

Information to sex workers and clients

    (1)     A brothel proprietor must provide easily accessible written information about the transmission of sexually transmitted infections in a variety of relevant languages at the brothel for the benefit of sex workers and clients.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (2)     A brothel proprietor must take reasonable steps to ensure that any information about sexually transmitted infections provided at the brothel for the benefit of sex workers or clients is medically accurate.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (3)     If a sex worker has difficulty in communicating in the English language, the brothel proprietor must provide the information in a language with which the sex worker is familiar.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (4)     An escort agency proprietor must, in accordance with the regulations, provide easily accessible written information about the transmission of sexually transmitted infections in a variety of relevant languages for the benefit of sex workers and clients.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (5)     An escort agency proprietor must take reasonable steps to ensure that any information about sexually transmitted infections provided by the escort agency for the benefit of sex workers or clients is medically accurate.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (6)     If a sex worker has difficulty in communicating in the English language, the escort agency proprietor must provide the information in a language with which the sex worker is familiar.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.



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