Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007 · Updated to 30 Sep 2025 · Part I · Preliminary
1. Short title and commencement
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
This Act may be cited as the **Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007.
This Act comes into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette, and the Minister may appoint different dates for the coming into operation of different provisions of this Act.
Minister
“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for internal security;
*NOTE—Previously known as the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act 2007. Change in short title vide section 3 of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons (Amendment) Act 2010 [Act A1385] w.e.f.
trafficking in persons
“trafficking in persons” means all actions of recruiting, conveying, transferring, acquiring, maintaining, harbouring, providing or receiving, a person, for the purpose of exploitation, by the following means: (a) threat or use of force or other forms of coercion; (b) abduction; (c) fraud; (d) deception; (e) abuse of power; (f) abuse of the position of vulnerability of a person to an act of trafficking in persons; or (g) the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to obtain the consent of a person having control over the trafficked person;
15 November 2010–see P.U. (B) 500/2010.
**NOTE—All references to the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act 2007 and the Council for
Council
“Council” means the Council for Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants established under section 6;
Anti-Trafficking in Persons in any written law or document shall, on the coming into operation of this
Act, be construed as references to the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007 and the Council for Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants respectively–
smuggling of migrants
“smuggling of migrants” means— (a) arranging, facilitating or organizing, directly or indirectly, a person’s unlawful entry into or through, or unlawful exit from, any country of which the person is not a citizen or permanent resident either knowing or having reason to believe that the person’s entry or exit is unlawful; and (b) recruiting, conveying, transferring, concealing, harbouring or providing any other assistance or service for the purpose of carrying out the acts referred to in paragraph (a);
see section 26 of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons (Amendment) Act 2010 [Act A1385] w.e.f.
15 November 2010–see P.U. (B) 500/2010.
Terms defined in s 2
Council
Defined · s 2“Council” means the Council for Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants established under section 6;
Minister
Defined · s 2“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for internal security;
smuggling of migrants
Defined · s 2“smuggling of migrants” means— (a) arranging, facilitating or organizing, directly or indirectly, a person’s unlawful entry into or through, or unlawful exit from, any country of which the person is not a citizen or permanent resident either knowing or having reason to believe that the person’s entry or exit is unlawful; and (b) recruiting, conveying, transferring, concealing, harbouring or providing any other assistance or service for the purpose of carrying out the acts referred to in paragraph (a);
trafficking in persons
Defined · s 2“trafficking in persons” means all actions of recruiting, conveying, transferring, acquiring, maintaining, harbouring, providing or receiving, a person, for the purpose of exploitation, by the following means: (a) threat or use of force or other forms of coercion; (b) abduction; (c) fraud; (d) deception; (e) abuse of power; (f) abuse of the position of vulnerability of a person to an act of trafficking in persons; or (g) the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to obtain the consent of a person having control over the trafficked person;
Part II
Council for Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants
Part III
Part IV
Enforcement
Part V
Part VI