Sex Industry Offences Act 2005
9Participation of children
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9 Participation of children
(1) A person must not procure, or otherwise cause or permit, a child to provide sexual services in a sexual services business.
Penalty: Imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years.
(2) A person must not receive a fee or reward that he or she knows, or must reasonably be expected to know, is derived, directly or indirectly, from sexual services provided by a child in a sexual services business.
Penalty: Imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a fee or reward received in the ordinary course of a business that is not a sexual services business.
(4) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) , it is a defence to the charge for the accused to prove that, having taken all reasonable steps to find out the age of the person concerned, the accused believed on reasonable grounds, at the time the offence is alleged to have been committed, that the person concerned was of or over the age of 18 years.