Crimes Act 1958

A person (A) commits an offence if—

A causes or induces another person (B) to provide, or to continue to provide, commercial sexual services; and

B is not free to stop providing those services, or to leave the place or area where B provides those services, because A or another person (C)—

uses force against B or another person (D); or

makes a threat to, or against, B or D; or

unlawfully detains B or D; or

engages in fraud or misrepresentation (including by omission) in relation to B or D; or

uses a manifestly excessive debt owed, or purportedly owed, by B or D; and

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

to provide, or to continue to provide, commercial sexual services; or

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

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