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Your Obligations

Regulation 9 of the Prostitution Control Regulations 2006 provides, among other things, that every advertisement for a business carried on by a prostitution service provider who is exempted by section 23 of the Prostitution Control Act 1994 from the requirement to hold a licence, must contain:

The letters "PCA" followed by the exemption number allocated to that provider by the BLA. 

The "PCA" and exemption number must be clearly legible in a point type no smaller than the smallest point type appearing in the advertisement or 7 point type, whichever is the larger. 

An advertisement for a business carried on by a prostitution service provider must not contain a licence number or exemption number which is false, or which the provider is no longer entitled to use. An advertisement for a business carried on by a prostitution service provide must not contain a photographic or other pictorial representation of a person unless it is restricted to the head and shoulders.

An advertisement for a business carried on by a prostitution service provider must:

• not refer to the race, colour or ethnic origin of the person offering sexual services
• not refer to the health of, or any diagnostic procedures or medical testing undertaken by, the person offering sexual services
• may contain references to the sexual orientation of the person offering sexual services
• may state that safe sexual practices are engaged in and that condoms are always used.

All safe sex and medical certificate requirements under prostitution laws applying to licensees also apply to you as an exempt prostitution service provider.