3. Scope of application

Terms defined in s 2

• exploitation

  exploitation

  Defined · s 2

  “exploitation” includes all forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude, any illegal activity or the removal of human organs;

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• receiving country

  receiving country

  Defined · s 2

  “receiving country” means a country into which a trafficked person or a smuggled migrant is brought as part of an act of trafficking in persons or smuggling of migrants, as the case may be; Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants 9

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• smuggling of migrants

  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);

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• this Act

  this Act

  Defined · s 2

  “this Act” includes any subsidiary legislation made under this Act;

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• trafficking in persons

  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;

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• transit country

  transit country

  Defined · s 2

  “transit country” means a country from which, or into or through which, a trafficked person or a smuggled migrant, as the case may be, is brought or travels through by land, sea or air or temporarily remains in as part of an act of trafficking in persons or smuggling of migrants;

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