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Enforced by: Police
Status: Amended (in force with amendments)
Penalty ceiling: Imprisonment 3 of 12 obligations carry imprisonment (life imprisonment). 4 carry different penalties and 5 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

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Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person6 Director or Officer1

Plus 5 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

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Director or Officer — also bound by 429 other Acts

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 162 duties

Companies Act 2006 126 duties

Insolvency Act 1986 77 duties

The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 68 duties

Building Societies Act 1986 32 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

Part 1

OFFENCES

5 of 7 sections shown

s.001 Offence of human trafficking Imprisonment

Commit human traffickingAny Person

s.004 Slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour Imprisonment

Hold a person in slavery or require forced labourAny Person

s.005 General aggravation of offence Imprisonment

Commit an offence connected to human trafficking activityAny Person

s.006 Aggravation involving a child Imprisonment

Aggravated human trafficking involving a childAny Person

s.007 Aggravation involving public official Imprisonment

Human trafficking aggravated by abuse of a public positionAny Person

2 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.002 Application of offence to conduct in United Kingdom and elsewhere

s.003 Exploitation for purposes of offence of human trafficking

Part 2

PROTECTION OF VICTIMS

1 of 5 sections shown

s.012 Presumption of age Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Health Boards and Local Authorities must treat potential victims as childrenLocal authority

4 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.008 Lord Advocate's instructions on prosecution of victims of offences

s.009 Support and assistance: victims of offence of human trafficking

s.010 Support and assistance: victims of an offence under section 4

s.011 Independent child trafficking guardians

Part 3

CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY

0 of 3 sections shown

3 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.013 Detention of vehicle, ship or aircraft

s.014 Forfeiture of vehicle, ship or aircraft

s.015 Proceeds of Crime Act 2002: lifestyle offences

Part 4

TRAFFICKING AND EXPLOITATION PREVENTION AND RISK ORDERS

1 of 19 sections shown

s.032 Offences Imprisonment

Breach a trafficking or exploitation prevention/risk orderAny Person

18 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.016 Relevant trafficking or exploitation offence

s.017 Prevention orders on sentencing

s.018 Prevention orders on application

s.019 Meaning of relevant offender

s.020 Contents of prevention orders

s.021 Prohibitions on foreign travel

s.022 Orders on sentencing: variation, renewal and discharge

s.023 Orders on application: variation, renewal and discharge

s.024 Interim prevention orders

s.025 Appeals: prevention orders

s.026 Risk orders

s.027 Contents of risk orders

s.028 Prohibitions on foreign travel

s.029 Variation, renewal and discharge of risk orders

s.030 Interim risk orders

s.031 Appeals: risk orders

s.033 Enforcement of other UK orders

s.034 Interpretation of Part 4

Part 5

STRATEGY AND REPORTING

4 of 4 sections shown

s.035 Trafficking and exploitation strategy Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Scottish Ministers must develop a strategy to tackle human traffickingCrown / Minister / Government department

s.036 Review and publication of strategy Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Scottish Ministers must review and publish the anti-trafficking strategyCrown / Minister / Government department

s.037 Duty to co-operate on strategy Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Scottish Ministers must receive cooperation for anti-trafficking strategiesCrown / Minister / Government department

s.038 Duty to notify and provide information about victims Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Specified public authorities must notify Police Scotland of trafficking victimsStatutory regulator

Part 6

FINAL PROVISIONS

1 of 8 sections shown

s.039 Offences by bodies corporate etc. Imprisonment

Corporate liability for human trafficking offencesDirector or Officer

7 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.040 Interpretation

s.041 Regulations

s.042 Ancillary provision

s.043 Minor and consequential amendments

s.044 Crown application

s.045 Commencement

s.046 Short title

1 other provision

s.minor and consequential modifications MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL MODIFICATIONS

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What it requires

OFFENCES

PROTECTION OF VICTIMS

CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY

TRAFFICKING AND EXPLOITATION PREVENTION AND RISK ORDERS

STRATEGY AND REPORTING

FINAL PROVISIONS

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