s 55 Penalties for keeping a brothel used for prostitution
(1) The Sexual Offences Act 1956 (c. 69) is amended as follows. (2) After section 33 insert— Keeping a brothel used for prostitution (33A) (1) It is an offence for a person to keep, or to manage, or act or assist in the management of, a brothel to which people resort for practices involving prostitution (whether or not also for other practices). (2) In this section “ prostitution ” has the meaning given by section 51(2) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. (3) In Schedule 2 (mode of prosecution, punishment etc.), after paragraph 33 insert (as a paragraph with no entry in the fourth column)— 33A Keeping a brothel used for prostitution (section 33A). (i) on indictment (ii) summarily Seven years Six months, or the statutory maximum, or both.