General provisions First paragraph. Restrictions on propositioning and on the provision and enjoyment of sexual services. Paragraph three: 1 Apart from in the protected zones listed in Paragraph two 1 , the local authority may also prohibit the activity of prostitutes in other parts of public spaces and in individual public premises run there.
Paragraph four: 1 The prostitute may only proposition individuals over the age of 18, and only individuals over the age of 18 may accept the offer of sexual services. The prostitute is not called upon to undergo a medical examination as a worker in the sex industry, but is entitled to health screening on the same basis as any other citizen]. Paragraph five: In the protected zone, soliciting the sexual services of others in return for recompense is prohibited.
The potential client may neither solicit nor accept offers within the protected zone. The intention here is to close the loophole, which would otherwise exist if prostitutes could be approached within protected zones]. Paragraph six: Propositioning in written, image or sound recorded form or by means of any other equipment is prohibited, as is the advertising of sexual services and collaboration in such deeds.
Paragraph seven: 1 If individuals pursuing press-related activities and providers of other information or news services collaborate in the advertising of sexual services by anyone, a public peace fine of between HUF , and HUF one million may be imposed on them. In , a trend emerged within legislation towards categorising individual prostitution - presumably accepting the abolitionist viewpoints - as a "private matter" of the prostitute regarded as the victim of crime.
With the decriminalisation of soliciting in our criminal statute in May of , the statute came closer to the spirit of the Convention signed in New York on the 21st of May on the repression of trafficking in human beings and the exploitation of others as prostitutes".
