Last updated 2 February 2026
Section 218 of the Criminal Code Act 1899 (Qld) (Criminal Code) deals with procuring sexual acts by coercion including procuring a person to provide, or continue to provide, commercial sexual services.
Procuring sexual acts by:
- threats or intimidation
- a false pretence
- administering to a person, or causing them to take, a drug or some other thing intending to stupefy or overpower them to enable a sexual act to be engaged in
- assaulting a person or damaging property of a person
is an offence that is punishable by up to 14 years imprisonment. Section 218(4) of the Criminal Code defines ‘procure’ as to knowingly entice or recruit for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
A person engages in a sexual act if the person:
- allows a sexual act to be done to the person’s body
- does a sexual act to the person’s own body or the body of another person
- otherwise engages in an act of an indecent nature with another person.
It is not limited to sexual intercourse or acts involving physical contact.