Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Act 2024
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Amendment of Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Act 2008 | ||
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36. The Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Act 2008 is amended— | ||
(a) in section 4— | ||
(i) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3): | ||
“(3) A person who trafficks a relevant person for the purposes of the exploitation of the relevant person shall be guilty of an offence.”, | ||
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(ii) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (8): | ||
“(8) In this section, ‘relevant person’ means a person who has— | ||
(a) a physical disability, | ||
(b) a mental or intellectual disability, or | ||
(c) a mental illness, | ||
which is of such a nature or degree as to severely restrict the person to guard himself or herself against serious exploitation.”, | ||
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(b) by the insertion of the following section after section 5: | ||
“Protection of certain persons from prosecution for certain offences | ||
5A. Notwithstanding section 7 of the Criminal Law Act 1997 , it shall not be an offence for a trafficked person to aid, abet, counsel or procure another person to commit an offence under this Act relating to the trafficking in, or to, the State of the trafficked person.”. |