3Interpretation

3 Interpretation

(1)  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –

child means a person under the age of 18 years;

commercial operator means –

(a) a person who is not a self-employed sex worker and who, whether alone or with another person, operates, owns, manages or is in day-to-day control of a sexual services business; and

(b) if the person referred to in paragraph (a) is a corporation or a body corporate, a director, within the meaning of the Corporations Act, of that corporation or body corporate;

commercial sexual services business means a sexual services business operated or managed by a commercial operator;

prophylactic means a condom or other device used to prevent the transmission of a sexually transmissible infection;

self-employed sex worker means –

(a) a sex worker who solely owns and operates a sexual services business; or

(b) a sex worker who, together with no more than one other sex worker, neither of whom employs or manages the other, owns and operates a sexual services business;

sex worker means a person who provides sexual services in a sexual services business;

[Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 5 of 2023, s. 18, Applied:13 Jun 2023] sexual intercourse means sexual intercourse as defined in section 2B of the Criminal Code;

sexual services means –

(a) an act of sexual intercourse; or

(b) any activity where there is any form of direct physical contact between 2 or more persons for the purpose of the sexual gratification of one or more of those persons including, without limitation, the masturbation of one person by another;