Policing and Crime Bill

Clause 13: Paying for sexual services of a prostitute subjected to force etc: England and Wales Amendment 45 45: Clause 13, page 15, line 32, leave out from beginning to end of line 7 on page 16 and insert— "53A Paying for sexual services of a prostitute known to be trafficked or coerced: England and Wales (1) A person (A) commits an offence if— (a) A makes or promises payment for, or uses, the sexual services of prostitute (B), and (b) A knows, or ought to know— (i) that B is the victim of trafficking, (ii) that the sexual services have been provided through coercion of B, (iii) that B has provided sexual services in order to gain access to controlled drugs, or (iv) that a third party has influenced the activity of B by direction or instruction in circumstances where B does not freely consent to such direction or instruction. (2) It is irrelevant where the sexual services have been or will be provided. (3) In this section, "trafficking" means the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. (4) In this section, "coercion of B" includes— (a) violence against B or another person, (b) threats against B or another person, or (c) intimidation of B.""