{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/26",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Paying for sexual services of a prostitute subjected to force etc: England and Wales",
  "text": "After section 53 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42) insert—\n“Paying for sexual services of a prostitute subjected to force etc.\n53A (1) A person (A) commits an offence if—\n(a) A makes or promises payment for the sexual services of a prostitute (B),\n(b) a third person (C) has engaged in exploitative conduct of a kind likely to induce or encourage B to provide the sexual services for which A has made or promised payment, and\n(c) C engaged in that conduct for or in the expectation of gain for C or another person (apart from A or B).\n(2) The following are irrelevant—\n(a) where in the world the sexual services are to be provided and whether those services are provided,\n(b) whether A is, or ought to be, aware that C has engaged in exploitative conduct.\n(3) C engages in exploitative conduct if—\n(a) C uses force, threats (whether or not relating to violence) or any other form of coercion, or\n(b) C practises any form of deception.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 14 in force at 1.4.2010 by S.I. 2010/507, art. 5(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/26/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:38.465629+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}