New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 1988 - SECT 17

17 Allowing premises to be used for prostitution

(1) A person, being the owner, occupier or manager, or a person assisting in the management, of any premises held out as being available:

(a) for the provision of massage, sauna baths, steam baths or facilities for physical exercise, or

(b) for the taking of photographs, or

(c) as a photographic studio,

or for services of a like nature, shall not knowingly suffer or permit the premises to be used for the purpose of prostitution or of soliciting for prostitution.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.

(2) A conviction under subsection (1) does not exempt the offender from any penalty or other punishment to which he or she may be liable for keeping or being concerned in keeping a disorderly house, or for the nuisance occasioned by it.