Nothing wrong with earning an honest living.
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brothel means any premises kept or habitually used for the purposes of prostitution; but does not include premises at which accommodation is normally provided on a commercial basis if the prostitution occurs under an arrangement initiated elsewhere
business of prostitution means a business of providing, or arranging the provision of, commercial sexual services
client means a person who receives, or seeks to receive, commercial sexual services
commercial sexual services means sexual services that—
(a)
involve physical participation by a person in sexual acts with, and for the gratification of, another person; and
(b)
are provided for payment or other reward (irrespective of whether the reward is given to the person providing the services or another person)
member means a member of the Prostitution Law Review Committee
premises includes a part of premises
prostitution means the provision of commercial sexual services
Prostitution Law Review Committee means the committee appointed under
section 43
public place—
(a)
means a place that is open to, or being used by, the public, whether admission is free or on payment of a charge and whether any owner or occupier of the place is lawfully entitled to exclude or eject a person from that place; and
(b)
includes any aircraft, hovercraft, ship, ferry, or other vessel, train, or vehicle carrying or available to carry passengers for reward
sex worker means a person who provides commercial sexual services
small owner-operated brothel means a brothel—
(a)
at which not more than 4 sex workers work; and
(b)
where each of those sex workers retains control over his or her individual earnings from prostitution carried out at the brothel
territorial authority has the same meaning as in
section 5(1) of the Local Government Act 2002.
(2)
In this Act, a reference to providing or receiving commercial sexual services means to provide or receive those services personally (rather than arranging another person to provide the services or arranging for the services to be received by another person).
5 Definition of operator
(1)
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—
(a)
is the director of a company that is an operator; or
(b)
determines—
(i)
when or where an individual sex worker will work; or
(ii)
the conditions in which sex workers in the business work; or
(iii)
the amount of money, or proportion of an amount of money, that a sex worker receives as payment for prostitution; or
(c)
is a person who employs, supervises, or directs any person who does any of the things referred to in paragraph (b).
(2)
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.
