Prostitution Reform Act 2003

Commercial sexual services - Powers to enter and inspect compliance with health and safety requirements

26: Powers to enter and inspect compliance with health and safety requirements

You could also call this:

"Inspectors can visit sex work businesses to check they are following health and safety rules"

You can expect an inspector to enter premises at a reasonable time if they think a prostitution business is being run there. The inspector can do this to check if the business is following health and safety rules. They can enter the premises if they have a good reason to believe the business is operating there.

The inspector can look around the premises, take photos and measurements, and make recordings to help with their inspection. They can also ask the person running the business, their employees, or the sex workers and clients for information to help with the inspection. The inspector can make copies of any information they get during the inspection.

If the inspector thinks something in the premises might be evidence of a crime against section 8 or section 9, they can take it and keep it. The inspector can also bring someone to help them with the inspection, as long as that person is working under their supervision. You still have the right to not say anything that might get you in trouble, and this section does not change that.

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Part 2Commercial sexual services
Powers to enter and inspect compliance with health and safety requirements

26Powers to enter and inspect compliance with health and safety requirements

  1. An inspector may, at any reasonable time, enter premises for the purpose of carrying out an inspection if he or she has reasonable grounds to believe that a business of prostitution is being carried on in the premises.

  2. For the purposes of the inspection, the inspector may—

  3. conduct reasonable inspections:
    1. take photographs and measurements and make sketches and recordings:
      1. require any of the following persons to provide information or assistance reasonably required by the inspector:
        1. a person who operates the business of prostitution, or an employee or agent of that person:
          1. a sex worker or client of the business of prostitution:
          2. take copies of the information referred to in paragraph (c).
            1. An inspector may seize and retain any thing in premises entered under this section that the inspector has reasonable grounds to believe will be evidence of the commission of an offence against section 8 or section 9.

            2. Nothing in this section limits or affects the privilege against self-incrimination.

            3. An inspector may take any person acting under the inspector's direct supervision into the premises to assist him or her with the inspection.