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Prostitution Reform Act 2003

Commercial sexual services - Advertising restrictions

11: Restrictions on advertising commercial sexual services

You could also call this:

"Rules about advertising sex work on TV, radio, and in newspapers"

There are rules about advertising commercial sexual services. You cannot advertise these services on radio or television. You also cannot publish these advertisements in a newspaper or periodical, except in the classified advertisements section.

You cannot screen these advertisements at a public cinema either. If you do any of these things, or if you tell someone else to do them, you can get in trouble with the law.

If you get in trouble, you might have to pay a fine, which is a penalty for breaking the law. The amount of the fine depends on who you are - if you are a company, the fine can be up to $50,000, but if you are an individual, the fine can be up to $10,000.

In this law, an advertisement is anything used to tell people about commercial sexual services, like words or pictures. This law was amended on 1 July 2013, by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011.

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Part 2Commercial sexual services
Advertising restrictions

11Restrictions on advertising commercial sexual services

  1. Advertisements for commercial sexual services may not be—

  2. broadcast on radio or television; or
    1. published in a newspaper or periodical, except in the classified advertisements section of the newspaper or periodical; or
      1. screened at a public cinema.

        1. A person who does any of the things described in subsection (1), or who authorises any of the things described in that subsection to be done, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to,—

        2. in the case of a body corporate, a fine not exceeding $50,000; and
          1. in any other case, a fine not exceeding $10,000.

            1. In this section, advertisement means any words, or any pictorial or other representation, used to notify the availability of, or promote the sale of, commercial sexual services, either generally or specifically.

            Notes
            • Section 11(2): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).