 Prostitution is legal, but it is illegal for a person to employ or otherwise control or profit from the work of individual sex workers.The "Sex Industry Offences Act" 2005 states that a person must not be a commercial operator of a sexual services business – that is, "someone who is not a self-employed sex worker and who, whether alone or with another person, operates, owns, manages or is in day-to-day control of a sexual services business".Street prostitution is illegal.