Singapore legislation

Clause 3

of Prevention of Human Trafficking Bill

Clause 3

Trafficking in persons

(1)

Any person who recruits, transports, transfers, harbours or receives an individual (other than a child) by means of —

(a)

the threat or use of force, or any other form of coercion;

(b)

abduction;

(c)

fraud or deception;

(d)

the abuse of power;

(e)

the abuse of the position of vulnerability of the individual; or

(f)

the giving to, or the receipt by, another person having control over that individual of any money or other benefit to secure that other person’s consent,for the purpose of the exploitation (whether in Singapore or elsewhere) of the individual shall be guilty of an offence.

(2)

Any person who recruits, transports, transfers, harbours or receives a child for the purpose of the exploitation (whether in Singapore or elsewhere) of the child shall be guilty of an offence.

(3)

In determining whether an offence has been committed under this section, the following shall be irrelevant: (a)in the case where the alleged victim of the offence is a child, whether the child, or the child’s parent or guardian, consented to the actual or intended exploitation; (b)in any other case, whether the alleged victim of the offence consented to the actual or intended exploitation.

(4)

For the purposes of subsection (1) or (2), it does not matter whether the act of trafficking in persons described in that subsection is done partly in and partly outside Singapore provided that the act, if done wholly in Singapore, would constitute an offence under that subsection.

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