Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts19. Advertising offences
(1) A person shall not publish, or cause to be published, an advertisement for prostitution services which contravenes or fails to comply with any requirement, prohibition or restriction prescribed for the purposes of this subsection.
Penalty: $2,000.
(2) A person shall not cause an advertisement for prostitution services to be broadcast or televised.
Penalty: $2,000.
(3) A person shall not publish, or cause to be published, an advertisement which is intended, or is likely, to induce a person -
(a) to seek employment as a prostitute; or
(b) to provide prostitution services for clients of a business that arranges the provision of such services.
Penalty: $2,000.
(4) Where an advertisement invites persons to work in, or obtain work through, a business that arranges the provision of prostitution services, it shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (3) as intended to induce persons to provide prostitution services for clients of the business unless it is clear from the face of the advertisement that the work to which it relates does not involve providing such services.
(5) Where an advertisement has been published, broadcast or televised for or relating to a business that provides, or arranges for the provision of, prostitution services, the person who was carrying on the business at the time when the advertisement was published, broadcast or televised shall be taken for the purposes of this section as having caused the publication, broadcasting or televising unless the court is satisfied to the contrary.
(6) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1), may -
(a) make provision with respect to the size, form and content of advertisements for prostitution services, or any class or description of prostitution services; or
(b) prohibit the advertising of prostitution services, or any class or description of prostitution services -
(i) in a specified publication or class or description of publications; or
(ii) in a specified manner.