Victorian Numbered Acts

SEX WORK DECRIMINALISATION ACT 2022 (NO. 7 OF 2022)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--GENERAL

   3.      Local laws not to be inconsistent with or undermine purposes of this Act  
   4.      Review of amendments made by this Act  

   PART 3--STAGE 1--AMENDMENT OF SEX WORK ACT 1994

   5.      Definitions  
   6.      Repeal of street sex work offences  
   7.      Section 17 substituted  
   8.      Section 18A repealed (safer sex practices)  
   9.      Sections 19 and 20 repealed (infected sex worker)  
   10.     Section 20A repealed (time for swab tests)  
   11.     Part 2A repealed (banning notices)  
   12.     Sections 24 and 24A repealed (exempt small owner register)  
   13.     Functions of Director  
   14.     Entry to unlicensed premises—search warrant  
   15.     Entry to unlicensed premises—without search warrant  
   16.     Admissibility of evidence obtained under entry authority  
   17.     Entry to premises without planning permit—search warrant  
   18.     Entry to premises without planning permit—without search warrant  
   19.     Secrecy  
   20.     Evidentiary provisions  
   21.     Prostitution Control (Amendment) Act 1997  
   22.     New section 96 inserted  

   PART 4--STAGE 1--AMENDMENT OF OTHER ACTS

           Division 1--Amendment of Business Licensing Authority Act 1998

   23.     Registers  
   24.     Restriction of personal information  
   25.     New section 17AB inserted  
   26.     Secrecy  

           Division 2--Amendment of Summary Offences Act 1966

   27.     Section 18 repealed  
   28.     New Division 3A of Part I inserted  
   29.     Power to serve infringement notice  
   30.     Infringement penalty  
   31.     New section 61A inserted  
   32.     New section 65 inserted  

           Division 3--Consequential amendment of Local Government Act 2020

   33.     Local law requirements  

   PART 5--STAGE 1--AMENDMENT OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 2010

   34.     Attributes  
   35.     Exception—genuine occupational requirements  
   36.     Section 62 repealed  

   PART 6--STAGE 2--REPEAL OF SEX WORK ACT 1994

   37.     Sex Work Act 1994 repealed  
   38.     Regulations dealing with transitional matters  

   PART 7--STAGE 2--AMENDMENT OF OTHER ACTS

           Division 1--Re-enactment of certain offences in Crimes Act 1958

   39.     Definitions  
   40.     Loitering near schools etc. by sexual offender  
   41.     Definitions  
   42.     New Subdivision (8FAA) inserted in Division 1 of Part I  
   43.     New section 639 inserted in Part 7  
   44.     Heading to Division 3A of Part I substituted  
   45.     Definitions  
   46.     Sex work at or near certain places  
   47.     New sections 38C and 38D inserted  
   48.     Advertising of live sexually-explicit entertainment  
   49.     New sections 38E and 38F inserted  
   50.     Advertising regulations  
   51.      New section 66 inserted  

           Division 3--Amendment of Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012

   52.     Definitions  
   53.     Repeal and amendment of provisions relating to introduction agencies and sex work industries  
   54.     Effect of suspension  
   55.     Schedule 1 amended  

           Division 4--Amendment of Business Licensing Authority Act 1998

   56.     Definitions  
   57.     Functions of Authority  
   58.     Secrecy  
   59.     Definitions  
   60.     Effect of suspension  
   61.     New sections 25A and 25B inserted  
   62.     New section 27 inserted  

           Division 5--Amendment of Confiscation Act 1997

   63.     Meaning of serious criminal activity  
   64.     Schedule 1 amended  
   65.     Schedule 2 amended  

           Division 6--Amendment of Criminal Organisations Control Act 2012

   66.     Schedule amended  

           Division 7--Amendment of Criminal Procedure Act 2009

   67.     Meaning of sexual offence  
   68.     New section 457 inserted in Chapter 10  
   69.     Schedule 2––Indictable offences that may be heard and determined summarily amended  

           Division 8--Amendment of Fortification Removal Act 2013

   70.     Schedule amended  

           Division 9--Amendment of Liquor Control Reform Act 1998

   71.     Definitions  

           Division 10--Amendment of Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008

   72.     Definitions  
   73.     Division 10 of Part 8 repealed  

           Division 10--of Part 8 of the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 is repealed.

   74.     Power to enter—monitoring compliance or investigating  
   75.     Management and control of infectious disease, micro-organisms and medical conditions  

           Division 11--Amendment of Rooming House Operators Act 2016

   76.     Application for licence—licence disqualification criteria  
   77.     Application for renewal of licence—renewal disqualification criteria  

           Division 12--Amendment of Sentencing Act 1991

   78.     Schedule 1—Serious offender offences amended  

           Division 13--Amendment of the Serious Offenders Act 2018

   79.     Schedule 1—Serious sex offences amended  

           Division 14--Amendment of Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004

   80.     Schedule 2—Class 2 offences amended  

           Division 15--Amendment of Victoria Police Act 2013

   81.     Schedule 4 amended  

           Division 16--Amendment of Worker Screening Act 2020

   82.     Schedule 1—NDIS category A offences amended  

   PART 8--REPEAL OF PARTS OF THIS ACT

   83.     Repeal of Parts of this Act   
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