Last Change:

06/28/2024

Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act (2009)

Year: 2009

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Freedom of movement, Liberty & security of person

Description

An Act to provide for the prohibition of trafficking in persons, creation of offences, prosecution and punishment of offenders, prevention of the vice of trafficking in persons, protection of victims of trafficking in persons, and other related matters.

Selected provisions
Section 3 (1) - Offence of trafficking in persons.

A person who (a) recruits, transports, transfers, harbors 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, harbors or receives a person or facilitates the aforementioned acts through force or other forms of coercion for the purpose of engaging that person in prostitution, 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.

Section 6 - Engaging the Labour or Services of a Victim of Trafficking in Persons.

A person who while knowing or having reason to believe that a
person is a victim of trafficking, engages the labour or services of that
victim in that status, commits an offence and is liable to
imprisonment for ten years.