Crimes Act 1900 No 40
Historical version for 1 January 1991 to 16 March 1991 (accessed 23 May 2013 at 20:26) Current version

91D   Promoting or engaging in acts of child prostitution

(1)  Any person who:
(a)  by any means, causes or induces a child to participate in an act of child prostitution, or
(b)  participates as a client with a child in an act of child prostitution,
      is liable to penal servitude for 10 years or, if the child is under the age of 14 years, to penal servitude for 14 years.
(2)  Except where the child and the other person alleged to have participated in the act of child prostitution are both male, a person is not guilty of an offence under this section if the person satisfies the court:
(a)  that the child was not under the age of 14 years when the offence is alleged to have been committed, and
(b)  that the child consented to the act of child prostitution, and
(c)  that the person had, when the offence is alleged to have been committed, reasonable cause to believe, and did in fact believe, that the child was a person of or above the age of 18 years.
(3)  The consent of a child is not a defence to a charge relating to an offence under this section, except as provided by subsection (2).
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