South Australian Current Acts

SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 1953 - SECT 28

28—Keeping and managing brothels

        (1)         A person who—

            (a)         keeps or manages a brothel, or assists in keeping or managing a brothel; or

            (b)         receives money paid in a brothel in respect of prostitution,

is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: For a first offence—$1 250 or imprisonment for 3 months.

For a subsequent offence—$2 500 or imprisonment for 6 months.

        (2)         A person who acts or behaves as master or mistress, or as a person having the control or management, of a brothel will, for the purposes of this section, be taken to keep that brothel, whether he or she is or is not the keeper.