Victorian Numbered Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 (NO. 46 OF 2008) - SECT 159

    (1)     A brothel proprietor must take reasonable steps to ensure that a client and a sex worker use condoms in any encounter in a brothel between a client and a sex worker which involves vaginal, oral or anal penetration whether by means of a penis or other part of the body or by a device or object.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

    (2)     A brothel proprietor must not expressly or impliedly discourage the use of condoms in the brothel.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

    (3)     An escort agency proprietor must take reasonable steps to ensure that a client and a sex worker use condoms in any encounter arranged through the escort agency between a client and a sex worker which involves vaginal, oral or anal penetration whether by means of a penis or other part of the body or by a device or object.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

    (4)     An escort agency proprietor must not expressly or impliedly discourage the use of condoms in any encounter arranged through the escort agency.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.