CHAPTER 08:09
ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
Preliminary

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
Establishment of Human Trafficking (Prohibition) Committee

    3.    Human Trafficking (Prohibition) Committee

    4.    Membership of Committee

    5.    Powers and functions of Committee

    6.    Directions by Minister

    7.    Meetings of Committee

    8.    Appointment of Secretary to the Committee

PART III
Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons

    9.    Trafficking in persons

    9A.    Severe forms of trafficking in persons

    10.    Acts that promote child trafficking

    11.    Promotion of trafficking in persons

    12.    Use of trafficked persons

    12A.    Smuggling of persons

    12B.    Attempts

PART IV
Identification and Protection of Victims of Trafficking

    13.    Reporting and referral of child victim of trafficking in persons

    14.    Reporting and referral of adult victim of trafficking in persons

    15.    Support and protection of victims of trafficking in persons

PART V
Centres for Victims

    16.    Establishment of centres for victims

    17.    Minimum norms and standards

    18.    Programme offered by centre for child victims

    19.    Programme offered by centre for adult victims

PART VI
Trial of offenders and remedies for victims of trafficking in Persons

    20.    Victim’s right to privacy

    21.    Victim impact statement

    22.    Restitution

    22A.    Corporate liability

    23.    Victim’s immunity from prosecution

    24.    Trafficked person exempt from paying in civil suits

    25.    Confiscation and forfeiture of proceeds of crime

    26.    Repatriation of trafficked persons

PART VII
Victims of Trafficking Fund

    27.    Establishment of Victims of Trafficking Fund

    28.    Payments into and out of Fund

    29.    Accounts and audit

PART VIII
Miscellaneous provisions

    30.    Extra-territorial jurisdiction

    31.    Sentencing

    32.    Legitimacy and validity of documents

    33.    Regulations

Act 32, 2014,
S.I. 141, 2014,
Act 13, 2018,
Act 2, 2024,
S.I. 11, 2024.

An Act to give effect to the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons; to provide for the prohibition, prevention and combating of human trafficking, to provide for measures to protect and assist victims of trafficking in persons and other matters incidental thereto.

[Date of Commencement: 1st January, 2015]

PART I
Preliminary (ss 1-2)

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Anti-Human Trafficking Act.