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Crimes Act 1958
53HCausing or inducing a child to take part in commercial sexual services
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53H Causing or inducing a child to take part in commercial sexual services
(1) A person (A) must not cause or induce a child (B) to take part in commercial sexual services or to continue to take part in such services, whether B takes part as the person providing the services, as the client, or in any other capacity.
(b) it is a defence to the charge for A to prove that, having taken all reasonable steps to find out the age of B, A believed on reasonable grounds, at the time the offence is alleged to have been committed, that B was aged 18 years or more.
S. 53I inserted by No. 7/2022 s. 42.