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Prevention of Trafficking In Persons Act
2009
(a) recruits, transports, transfers, harbours or receives a person,
by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of
coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse
of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or
receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of
a person having control over another person, for the
purpose of exploitation;
(b) recruits, hires, maintains, confines, transports, transfers,
harbours or receives a person or facilitates the
aforementioned acts through force or other forms of
coercion for the purpose of engaging that person in
prositution, pornography, sexual exploitation, forced
labour, slavery, involuntary servitude, death bondage,
forced or arranged marriage;
commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for fifteen years.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), where the
offender is a legal person, it shall be liable to a fine of one thousand
currency points, and temporary or permanent closure, deregistration,
dissolution, or disqualification from practice of certain activities.
(3) The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or
receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation shall constitute
“trafficking in persons” even if this does not involve any of the means
set forth in subsection (1) of this Section.
(4) The consent of the victim of trafficking or if a child, the
consent of his or her parents or guardian to the acts of exploitation
shall not be relevant.
4. Aggravated trafficking in persons.
A person commits the offence of aggravated trafficking where—
(a) the victim of trafficking is a child;
(b) adoption, guardianship, fostering and other orders in relation
to children is undertaken for the purpose of exploitation;
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