Crimes Act 1958

A person (A) commits an offence if—

A conducts a business that involves the provision of commercial sexual services by another person (B); 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, or purported debt, 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).

For the purposes of subsection (1), conducting a business includes—

taking any part in the management of the business; or

exercising control or direction over the business; or

providing finance for the business.