53DConducting a business in circumstances involving sexual servitude

53D Conducting a business in circumstances involving sexual servitude

(a) A conducts a business that involves the provision of commercial sexual services by another person (B); and

(b) B is not free to stop providing those services, or to leave the place or area where B provides those services, because A or another person (C)—

(i) uses force against B or another person (D); or

(ii) makes a threat to, or against, B or D; or

(iii) unlawfully detains B or D; or

(iv) engages in fraud or misrepresentation (including by omission) in relation to B or D; or

(v) uses a manifestly excessive debt, or purported debt, owed by B or D; and

(c) A knows that engaging in the conduct referred to in paragraph (b) will, or probably will, cause B—

(ii) to not be free to leave the place or area where B provides commercial sexual services.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), conducting a business includes—

(a) taking any part in the management of the business; or

(b) exercising control or direction over the business; or

(c) providing finance for the business.

S. 53E inserted by No. 47/2016 s. 16.