Victorian Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 53B

    (1)     A person (A) commits an offence if—

        (a)     A—

              (i)     uses force against another person (B) or any other person; or

              (ii)     makes a threat to, or against, B or any other person; or

              (iii)     unlawfully detains B or any other person; or

              (iv)     engages in fraud or misrepresentation (including by omission) in relation to B or any other person; or

              (v)     uses a manifestly excessive debt owed, or purportedly owed, by B or any other person; and

        (b)     A, by engaging in the conduct referred to in paragraph (a), causes B—

              (i)     to provide, or to continue to provide, commercial sexual services; or

              (ii)     to not be free to leave the place or area where B provides commercial sexual services; and

        (c)     A—

              (i)     intends that engaging in the conduct referred to in paragraph (a) will cause B—

    (A)     to provide, or to continue to provide, commercial sexual services; or

    (B)     to not be free to leave the place or area where B provides commercial sexual services; or

              (ii)     knows that engaging in the conduct referred to in paragraph (a) will, or probably will, cause B—

    (A)     to provide, or to continue to provide, commercial sexual services; or

    (B)     to not be free to leave the place or area where B provides commercial sexual services.

    (2)     A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable to level 4 imprisonment (15 years maximum).

S. 53C inserted by No. 47/2016 s. 16.