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Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act · 2021 Revised Edition · Part · Offences
Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act · 2021 Revised Edition · Part · Offences
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person who, with the intention of inducing another person to enter into an engagement to provide sexual services, deceives that other person about -
the fact that the engagement will involve the provision of sexual services;
the nature of sexual services to be provided:
the extent to which the person will be free to cease providing sexual services;
(4 if there is or will be a debt owed or claimed to be owed by the person in connection with the engagement, the quantum, or the existence, of the debt owed or claimed to be owed;
the fact that the engagement will involve debt bondage or the confiscation of the person's travel documents.
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is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine
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- not exceeding
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$ ~ OOO ~ i m ~ ~ o ~ ~ e n t f o r a a term o f not-less than 4 years but not a exceeding 30 years and whipping with not less than 5 strokes.
14 CAP. 230
Anti-Traficking in Persons
debt bondage
"debt bondage" means a status or condition arising from - (a) the pledging by a debtor of the personal services of the debtor or an individual under the debtor's control, as security for a debt; and (b) the reasonable value of such services not being applied towards the discharge of the debt, or the length or nature of such services not being limited or defined, respectively;
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