Act 7
Prevention of Trafficking In Persons Act
2009
(n) “sex tourism” means a program organized by travel and
tourism – related establishments or individuals, which
consists of tourism packages or activities, utilizing and
offering escort and sexual services and practices offered for
any persons as part of work recreation;
(o) “sexual exploitation” means the use of a person in
prostitution, sex tourism, pornography, the production of
pornographic materials, or the use of a person for sexual
intercourse or other lascivious conduct;
(p) “slavery” is the status or condition of a person over whom
any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership
are exercised;
(q) “slave trade” includes all acts involved in the capture,
acquisition or disposal of a person with the view to selling
or exchanging him or her and with the intention of reducing
him or her to slavery;
(r) “trafficking in persons” means the recruitment, transportation,
transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the
threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction,
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;
(s) “victim of trafficking” includes a person who is being or has
been trafficked as per the definition of Trafficking in
Persons provided under this Act.
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PART II—TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
Offence of trafficking in persons.
(1) A person who—
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