Commercial operator must provide health and safety equipment
26A Commercial operator must provide health and safety equipment
A person commits an offence if the person—
is the operator of a commercial brothel or commercial escort agency; and
fails to provide a sex worker employed at the brothel, or from the escort agency, prophylactics in sufficient quantity to allow the sex worker to comply with section 27 (3).
Maximum penalty: 40 penalty units.
A person commits an offence if the person—
is the operator of a commercial brothel or commercial escort agency; and
fails to—
provide a sex worker employed at the brothel, or from the escort agency, personal protective equipment; and
take reasonable steps to ensure the sex worker uses the personal protective equipment to minimise the risk to the sex worker’s health or safety.
Maximum penalty: 40 penalty units.
A person commits an offence if the person—
is the operator of a commercial brothel or commercial escort agency; and
provides a sex worker employed at the brothel, or from the escort agency, prophylactics or personal protective equipment; and
charges, or imposes a levy on, the sex worker for the prophylactics or personal protective equipment.
Maximum penalty: 40 penalty units.
In this section:
commercial brothel—see section 5.
commercial escort agency—see section 5.
personal protective equipment, in relation to sex work, means anything used or worn by a sex worker to minimise risk to the sex worker’s health or safety from engaging in sex work.
Examples—personal protective equipment dental dams, latex gloves, water-based lubricants, sponges
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