{"id":1908,"date":"2013-04-13T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/library\/ipart12_2012\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T20:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T10:19:44","slug":"ipart12_2012","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/library\/ipart12_2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforming Licensing in NSW: Review of licence rationale and design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Submission to Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal, Reforming Licensing in NSW: Review of licence rationale and design<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scarlet Alliance does not support the introduction of a licensing system in NSW for sex work owners\/operators or for businesses or individuals.<br \/>\nExperiences in other Australian states demonstrate that:<br \/>\n\uf0b7 licensing of sex work is ineffective, expensive and unworkable;<br \/>\n\uf0b7 licensing imposes unnecessary costs on businesses and community;<br \/>\n\uf0b7 the costs of the licence exceed its benefits;<br \/>\n\uf0b7 licensing involves high administrative costs, compliance costs, excessive fees and delay costs;<br \/>\n\uf0b7 there is no clear rationale for government action or intervention;<br \/>\n\uf0b7 there are more efficient regulatory alternatives; and<br \/>\n\uf0b7 licensing is not best practice.<br \/>\nThe best opportunity to reduce red tape is to prevent a licensing system from being introduced in NSW.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submission to Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal, Reforming Licensing in NSW: Review of licence rationale and design &#8220;Scarlet Alliance does not support the introduction of a licensing system in NSW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","pmpro_default_level":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":""},"tags":[],"pubtype":[21,3],"class_list":["post-1908","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","pubtype-nsw","pubtype-submission","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/1908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"pubtype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pubtype?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}