Prostitution Amendment Bill 2002, Introduction and First Reading, Western Australia, Hansard, 17 April 2002, p.9673. Royal Assent to the Prostitution Amendment Act 2002 (WA) was received on 28 June 2002.
2.
The Constitution protects the freedom to enter or leave an occupation under Article 12 I Basic Law.
3.
Cf Drucksache des Deutschen Bundestages (Parliamentary Paper), 14/4456, p.5
4.
Decision of the Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof), in Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (1986), p.596.
5.
Cf. Drucksache des Deutschen Bundestages (Parliamentary Paper), 14/4456, p.5.
6.
Federal Court of Finance (Bundesfinanzgericht), in Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (1965), p.79. This judgment was based on §22Nr. 3 of the Income Tax Act (Einkommenssteuergesetz).
7.
Drucksache des Deutschen Bundestages (Parliamentary Paper), 14/7174, p.9.
8.
Drucksache des Deutschen Bundestages (Parliamentary Paper), 14/5958, p.2.
9.
Drucksache des Deutschen Bundestages (Parliamentary Paper), 14/6781, p.3.
10.
The criterion for immorality was the feeling of decency of all just and fair thinking people (from Decisions of the Imperial Court in Civil Matters (Reichsgerichts), RGZ 48, 114 at 124). Yet, despite the fact that Germans on the whole (68%) no longer regard prostitution as immoral, as evidenced by a survey conducted in May 2001 by the popular news magazine, Der Spiegel <www.spiegel.de/politik/Deutschland/0,1518,133219,00.html> accessed 18/2/2002, the Supreme Court refused to alter its verdict on prostitution.
11.
For details on the operation of the containment policy and the recommendation that it be repealed, see for instance, Government of Western Australia, Final Report of the Community Panel on Prostitution, 1990, 3 and 5.2.
12.
Argued by the Party of Democratic Socialism and the Free Democratic Party, both in Drucksache des Deutschen Bundestages (Parliamentary Paper), 14/7174, p.9.
13.
Drucksache des Deutschen Bundestages (Parliamentary Paper), 14/4456, p.6.
14.
Drucksache des Deutschen Bundestages (Parliamentary Paper), 14/6781, p.2.
