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CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 53I

Obtaining a commercial benefit, payment or reward for commercial sexual services provided by a child

    (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.



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