{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-1956/section-33A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-1956/section-33A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/69",
  "legislation_title": "Sexual Offences Act 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-1956",
  "path": "section/33A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33A",
  "heading": "Keeping a brothel used for prostitution",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a person to keep, or to manage, or act or assist in the management of, a brothel to which people resort for practices involving prostitution (whether or not also for other practices).\n(2) In this section “prostitution” has the meaning given by section 51(2) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 33A inserted (1.5.2004) by Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42), ss. 55(2), 141; S.I. 2004/874, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/69/section/33A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:14:21.606031+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."
}