(1) A person (A) must not receive a commercial benefit, or payment or reward (including the supply of a drug of dependence within the meaning of the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 ) knowing that it or any part of it has been derived, directly or indirectly, from commercial sexual services provided by a child (B).
Penalty: Level 4 imprisonment (15 years maximum).
(2) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1), if it is proved that A was residing, at the time the offence is alleged to have been committed, with B, a child who provides commercial sexual services, A is presumed to be guilty of the offence in the absence of proof to the contrary.
(3) 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. 53J inserted by No. 7/2022 s. 42.