Section 12

Any person, who traffics in persons not being a child or not being a person who is unable to fully take care of or protect himself because of a physical or mental disability or condition, commits an offence and shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding *twenty years, and shall also be liable to fine.

*NOTE—Previously “fifteen years”–see subsection 4(c) of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and

Anti-Smuggling of Migrants (Amendment) Act 2022 [Act A1644] w.e.f. 22 February 2022.

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