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PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 73 Public soliciting for purposes of prostitution

PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 73

Public soliciting for purposes of prostitution

73 Public soliciting for purposes of prostitution

(1) A person must not publicly solicit for prostitution.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—
(a) for a first offence—15 penalty units; or
(b) for a second offence—25 penalty units; or
(c) for a third or subsequent offence—30 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
(2) A person publicly solicits for prostitution if, for that purpose, the person—
(a) solicits a person who is in a public place; or
(b) solicits a person at a place within the view or hearing of a person who is in a public place; or
(c) loiters in or near a public place; or
(d) loiters in a place that can be viewed from a public place.
(3) Subsection (1) applies equally to—
(a) males and females; and
(b) prostitutes and their clients; and
(c) persons acting for prostitutes; and
(d) persons acting for clients of prostitutes.
(4) In this section—


"solicit" includes the following—
(a) offer to provide prostitution;
(b) accept an offer to provide prostitution.