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Child Care Act, 1983 (Act No. 74 of 1983)

Chapter 8 : Prevention of ill-treatment and unlawful removal of children

50A. Commercial sexual exploitation of children

 

1) Any person who participates or is involved in the commercial sexual exploitation of a child shall be guilty of an offence.

 

2) Any person who is an owner, lessor, manager, tenant or occupier of property on which the commercial sexual exploitation of a child occurs and who, within a reasonable time of gaining information of such occurrence, fails to report such occurrence at a police station, shall be guilty of an offence.

 

3) Any person who is convicted of an offence in terms of this section, shall be liable to a fine, or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 10 years, or to both such fine and such imprisonment.