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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 No. 1769
58.—(1) The following provisions apply for the purposes of this Part.
(2) “Prostitute” means a person (A) who, on at least one occasion and whether or not compelled to do so, offers or provides sexual services to another person in return for payment or a promise of payment to A or a third person; and “prostitution” is to be interpreted accordingly.
(3) In paragraph (2), “payment” means any financial advantage, including the discharge of an obligation to pay or the provision of goods or services (including sexual services) gratuitously or at a discount.
(4) “Gain” means—
(a)any financial advantage, including the discharge of an obligation to pay or the provision of goods or services (including sexual services) gratuitously or at a discount; or
(b)the goodwill of any person which is or appears likely, in time, to bring financial advantage.
(5) Conduct is persistent if it takes place on two or more occasions in any period of three months.
(6) “Motor vehicle” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 18).
(7) For the purposes of Articles 59 to 61—
(a)“street” includes any bridge, road, lane, footway, subway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, which is for the time being open to the public; and
(b)the doorways and entrances of premises abutting on a street (as defined in sub-paragraph (a)), and any ground adjoining and open to a street, shall be treated as forming part of the street.
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