Iceland — Legal Help

Iceland runs the Nordic model: selling sex is not a crime, but purchasing sex is (General Penal Code article 206 as amended in 2009), as are pimping and profiting from others' prostitution; commercial striptease has been banned since 2010. The age of consent is 15, but any paid sexual act with a person under 18 is a separate, more serious offence. Emergency number 112. Police speak good English; if arrested you have the right to a defence lawyer at questioning and to an interpreter.

Consular cover is thinner than elsewhere in Europe — the US, UK and Canada have embassies in Reykjavík, but many countries maintain only honorary consuls, with the responsible embassy in Oslo or Copenhagen. Embassies can provide lawyer lists and detention visits, not legal intervention.