Is selling sex criminalised?
Selling sex is legal if done indoors by sex workers working alone. Soliciting in a public place or advertising sex services are illegal. Small groups of sex workers working together in indoor premises are also criminalised for running brothels or 'vice establishments'
Is organising/managing criminalised?
Yes - brothel keeping is criminalised as is 'living on the earnings of prostitution' and procuring.
Is there mandatory HIV/STI testing?
No
Is there mandatory registration?
No
Is sex work recognised as work?
No
Is sex work decriminalised with limited regulation?
No
Sources/further reading
Crimes Ordinance of Hong Kong - http://www.legislation.gov.hk/blis_pdf.nsf/6799165D2FEE3FA94825755E0033…
Info on Laws from Action for Reach Out (NGO in Hong Kong) - https://www.afro.org.hk/EN/info.php
UNDP et al (2012) Sex Work and the Law in Asia and the Pacific: Laws, HIV and human rights in the context of sex work, available at http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/hivaids/English/HIV-2012-S…
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2132344/laws-prot…
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