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CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 65A

65A—Definitions relating to commercial sexual services

        (1)         For the purposes of this Division—

"ask" connotes a request made with serious intendment (as distinct from one made without an actual intention of obtaining the ostensible object of the request);

"child" means a person under the age of 18 years;

"commercial sexual services" means services provided for payment involving the use or display of the body of the person who provides the services for the sexual gratification of another or others;

"compulsion"—a person compels another (the "victim") if the person controls or influences the victim's conduct by means that effectively prevent the victim from exercising freedom of choice;

"payment" includes any form of commercial consideration;

"sexual servitude" means the condition of a person who provides commercial sexual services under compulsion;

"undue influence"—a person exerts undue influence on another (the "victim") if the person uses unfair or improper means to influence the victim's conduct.

        (2)         For the purposes of this Division, a person whose conduct causes a particular result is taken to have intended that result if the person is reckless about whether that result ensues.



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