New Zealand Legislation: Acts

5 Definition of operator

• (1) In this Act, operator, in relation to a business of prostitution, means a person who, whether alone or with others, owns, operates, controls, or manages the business; and includes (without limitation) any person who—

  • (a) is the director of a company that is an operator; or

  • (b) determines—

    • (i) when or where an individual sex worker will work; or

    • (ii) the conditions in which sex workers in the business work; or

    • (iii) the amount of money, or proportion of an amount of money, that a sex worker receives as payment for prostitution; or

  • (c) is a person who employs, supervises, or directs any person who does any of the things referred to in paragraph (b).

  (2) Despite anything in subsection (1), a sex worker who works at a small owner-operated brothel is not an operator of that business of prostitution, and, for the purposes of this Act, a small owner-operated brothel does not have an operator.