Part 1Preliminary provisions
5Definition of operator
In this Act, operator, in relation to a business of prostitution, means a person who, whether alone or with others, owns, operates, controls, or manages the business; and includes (without limitation) any person who—
- is the director of a company that is an operator; or
- determines—
- when or where an individual sex worker will work; or
- the conditions in which sex workers in the business work; or
- the amount of money, or proportion of an amount of money, that a sex worker receives as payment for prostitution; or
- when or where an individual sex worker will work; or
- is a person who employs, supervises, or directs any person who does any of the things referred to in paragraph (b).
Despite anything in subsection (1), a sex worker who works at a small owner-operated brothel is not an operator of that business of prostitution, and, for the purposes of this Act, a small owner-operated brothel does not have an operator.