- Laws of Fiji

Last Updated: 21 March 2018

[CR 231] Loitering or soliciting for the purposes of prostitution231

231

(1) A person commits a summary offence if he or she—

(a)loiters in a public place for the purpose of offering himself or herself for sex in return for a payment of any nature;
(b)solicits for immoral purposes in any public place;
(c)seeks the services of a prostitute in a public place; or
(d)uses the services of a prostitute in a public place; or
(e)makes arrangements with a prostitute or a person offering the services of a prostitute in order to use his or her services by any communication whatsoever; or
(f)solicits for an immoral purpose by any communication whatsoever.
Penalty—
- (i)in respect of a first offence, a fine of $500;
- (ii)in respect of a subsequent offence, imprisonment for 3 months or a fine of $1,000, or both.

[subs (1) am Act 31 of 2016 s 193, effective 1 December 2016]

(2) Any police officer may arrest without warrant any person he or she finds in any public place whom he reasonably suspects to be committing an offence under the provisions of this section.

(3) For the purposes of this section, “public place” includes the doorways and entrances of premises abutting on any public way and any ground adjoining and open to any public place.