Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) A person (A) must not cause or induce a child (B) to take part in commercial sexual services or to continue to take part in such services, whether B takes part as the person providing the services, as the client, or in any other capacity.
Penalty: Level 5 imprisonment (10 years maximum).
(2) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1)—
(a) it is not necessary for the prosecution to prove that A knew that B was a child; and
(b) it is a defence to the charge for A to prove that, having taken all reasonable steps to find out the age of B, A believed on reasonable grounds, at the time the offence is alleged to have been committed, that B was aged 18 years or more.
S. 53I inserted by No. 7/2022 s. 42.