12Sex workers and clients to adopt safe sex practices

12 Sex workers and clients to adopt safe sex practices

(1)  A person must not, in a sexual services business, provide or receive any sexual services that involve sexual intercourse, or any other activity with a similar or greater risk of acquiring or transmitting a sexually transmissible infection, unless a prophylactic is used.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 500 penalty units.

(2)  A person, while providing or receiving, in a sexual services business, sexual services that involve sexual intercourse, or any other activity with a similar or greater risk of acquiring or transmitting a sexually transmissible infection, must not –

(a) discourage the use of prophylactics; or

(b) misuse, damage or interfere with the efficacy of any prophylactic used; or

(c) continue to use a prophylactic that he or she knows, or could reasonably be expected to know, is damaged.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 500 penalty units.

(3)  A person who provides or receives sexual services in a sexual services business must take all reasonable steps to minimise the risk of acquiring or transmitting a sexually transmissible infection.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 500 penalty units.