CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 68
CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 68
68—Use of children in commercial sexual acts
(1) A person must not
employ, engage, cause or permit a child to perform, or to continue to perform,
commercial sexual acts.
Maximum penalty:
(a) if
the child is under the age of 14 years—imprisonment for life;
(b) in
any other case—imprisonment for 15 years.
(2) A person must not
ask a child to perform commercial sexual acts.
Maximum penalty:
(a) if
the child is under the age of 14 years—imprisonment for 15 years;
(b) in
any other case—imprisonment for 12 years.
(a) have
an arrangement with a child who performs commercial sexual acts under which
the person receives, on a regular or systematic basis, the proceeds, or a
share in the proceeds, of commercial sexual acts performed by the child; or
(b)
exploit a child by obtaining money knowing it to be the proceeds of commercial
sexual acts performed by the child.
Maximum penalty:
(a) if
the child is under the age of 14 years—imprisonment for 10 years;
(b) in
any other case—imprisonment for 4 years.
(4) In proceedings for
an offence against this section, it is not necessary for the prosecution to
establish that the defendant knew the victim of the alleged offence to be a
child.
(5) However, it is a
defence to a charge of an offence against this section if it is proved that
the defendant believed on reasonable grounds that the victim had attained
18 years of age.