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PREVENTION OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ACT, 2009.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

   Section

PART I
PRELIMINARY.

   1.   Commencement.

   2.   Interpretation.

PART II
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS.

   3.   Offence of trafficking in persons.

   4.   Aggravated trafficking in persons.

   5.   Trafficking in children.

   6.   Engaging the labour or services of a victim of trafficking in persons.

   7.   Promoting trafficking in persons.

   8.   Offences related to trafficking in persons.

   9.   Failure to disclose conviction.

   10.   Duty to report trafficking in persons.

PART III
PROTECTION OF VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS.

   11.   Non discrimination of victims of trafficking in persons.

   12.   Protection, assistance and support for victims of trafficking in persons.

   13.   Confidentiality.

   14.   Repatriation of victims of trafficking in persons.

   15.   Restitution.

   16.   Compensation.

   17.   Absence of victims and court awards.

PART IV
JURISDICTION.

   18.   Jurisdiction.

   19.   Extra-territorial jurisdiction.

   20.   Extradition.

PART V
PREVENTION OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS OFFICE.

   21.   Designation of prevention of trafficking in persons office.

PART VI
MISCELLANEOUS.

   22.   Confiscation and forfeiture of proceeds of trafficking.

   23.   Regulations.

      Schedule   Currency point.

PREVENTION OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ACT, 2009.

Commencement: 23 October, 2009.

   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 for other related matters.

PART I
PRELIMINARY.

1.   Commencement.

   This Act shall come into force upon publication in the Gazette.



PREVENTION OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ACT, 2009.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

   Section

PART I
PRELIMINARY.

   1.   Commencement.

   2.   Interpretation.

PART II
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS.

   3.   Offence of trafficking in persons.

   4.   Aggravated trafficking in persons.

   5.   Trafficking in children.

   6.   Engaging the labour or services of a victim of trafficking in persons.

   7.   Promoting trafficking in persons.

   8.   Offences related to trafficking in persons.

   9.   Failure to disclose conviction.

   10.   Duty to report trafficking in persons.

PART III
PROTECTION OF VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS.

   11.   Non discrimination of victims of trafficking in persons.

   12.   Protection, assistance and support for victims of trafficking in persons.

   13.   Confidentiality.

   14.   Repatriation of victims of trafficking in persons.

   15.   Restitution.

   16.   Compensation.

   17.   Absence of victims and court awards.

PART IV
JURISDICTION.

   18.   Jurisdiction.

   19.   Extra-territorial jurisdiction.

   20.   Extradition.

PART V
PREVENTION OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS OFFICE.

   21.   Designation of prevention of trafficking in persons office.

PART VI
MISCELLANEOUS.

   22.   Confiscation and forfeiture of proceeds of trafficking.

   23.   Regulations.

      Schedule   Currency point.

PREVENTION OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ACT, 2009.

Commencement: 23 October, 2009.

   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 for other related matters.

PART I
PRELIMINARY.

1.   Commencement.

   This Act shall come into force upon publication in the Gazette.*

2.   Interpretation.

   In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

   (a)   "child" means a person below the age of 18 years;

   (b)   "debt bondage" means the status or condition arising from a pledge by the debtor of his or her personal services or labour, or those of a person under his or her control as security or payment for a debt, when the length and nature of services is not clearly defined or when the value of the services as reasonably assessed is not applied towards the liquidation of the debt;

   (c)   "currency point" has the value specified in the Schedule to this Act;

   (d)   "exploitation" includes at a minimum, sexual exploitation, forced marriage, child marriage, forced labor, harmful child labour, use of a child in armed conflict, use of a person in illegal activities, debt bondage, slavery or practices similar to slavery or servitude, human sacrifice, the removal of organs or body parts for sale or for purposes of witchcraft, harmful rituals or practices;

   (e)   "forced labour" means all work or service which is exacted from any person under the threat of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself or herself voluntarily;

   (f)   "Gazette" means the Uganda Gazette, and includes any supplement of that Gazette;

   (g)   "human sacrifice" means the killing, mutilation, removal of organs or body parts of a person for sale or for the purposes of witchcraft, rituals or any harmful human practices;

   (h)   "Minister" means the Minister responsible for internal affairs;

   (i)   "prostitution" means the activities of a "prostitute" as defined in the Penal Code Act – "a person who, in public or elsewhere, regularly or habitually holds himself or herself out as available for sexual intercourse or other sexual gratification for monetary or other material gain";

   (j)   "public office" means an office in the public service;

   (k)   "public officer" means a person holding or acting in any public office;

   (l)   "public service" means service in a civil capacity of the Government or a local government;

   (m)   "pornography" means any representation, through publication, exhibition, cinematography, indecent show, information technology, or by whatever means, of a person engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities, or any representation of the sexual parts of a person for primarily sexual excitement;

   (n)   "sex tourism" means a program organised by travel and tourism related establishments or individuals, which consists of tourism packages or activities, utilising and offering escort and sexual services and practices offered for any persons as part of work recreation;

   (o)   "sexual exploitation" means the use of a person in prostitution, sex tourism, pornography, the production of pornographic materials, or the use of a person for sexual intercourse or other lascivious conduct;

   (p)   "slavery" means the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised;

   (q)   "slave trade" includes all acts involved in the capture, acquisition or disposal of a person with the view to selling or exchanging him or her and with the intention of reduci

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