Part 5Offences against decency and morality

Part 5—Offences against decency and morality 22—Indecent language (1) A person who uses indecent or profane language or sings any indecent or profane song or ballad— (a) in a public place; or (b) in a police station; or (c) which is audible from a public place; or (d) which is audible in neighbouring or adjoining occupied premises; or (e) with intent to offend or insult any person, indecent includes obscene. 23—Indecent behaviour and gross indecency (1) A person who behaves in an indecent manner— (a) in a public place, or while visible from a public place, or in a police station; or (b) in a place, other than a public place or police station, so as to offend or insult any person, (2) A person who, in a public place, or while visible from a public place or from occupied premises, wilfully does a grossly indecent act, whether alone or with another person, is guilty of an offence. 23A—Certain acts not an offence An act consisting of being in an unclad state in an area dedicated or reserved under an Act for unclad bathing (whether or not that area is so dedicated or reserved for any other purpose), or an act of being in an unclad state in waters adjacent to such an area, is not of itself an offence against an Act or law in force in this State. 24—Urinating etc in a public place A person who urinates or defecates in a public place within a municipality or town, elsewhere than in premises provided for that purpose, is guilty of an offence. Expiation fee: $80. 25—Soliciting A person who— (a) in a public place, or within the view or hearing of any person in a public place, accosts or solicits a person for the purpose of prostitution; or (b) loiters in a public place for the purpose of prostitution, 25A—Procurement for prostitution (1) A person must not engage in procurement for prostitution. For a first offence—$1 250 or imprisonment for 3 months. For a subsequent offence—$2 500 or imprisonment for 6 months (2) A person engages in procurement for prostitution if the person— (a) procures another to become a prostitute; or (b) publishes an advertisement to the effect that the person (or some other person) is willing to employ or engage a prostitute; or (c) approaches another person with a view to persuading the other person to accept employment or an engagement as a prostitute. advertisement includes a notice exhibited in, or so that it is visible from, a public place. 26—Living on the earnings of prostitution (1) A person who knowingly lives, wholly or in part, on the earnings of prostitution of another person is guilty of an offence. (2) In proceedings for an offence against subsection (1), the fact that a person lives with, or is habitually in the company of, a prostitute and has no visible lawful means of support is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, proof that that person is knowingly living on the earnings of prostitution.