Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007 · Updated to 30 Sep 2025 · Part VI · Miscellaneous
Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007 · Updated to 30 Sep 2025 · Part VI · Miscellaneous
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
Any person who commits an offence under this Act for which no penalty is expressly provided shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.
Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate, the body corporate shall, on conviction—
where a fine is specified under the relevant section, be liable to a fine of not less than three times the maximum fine specified; and
where no fine is specified—
in relation to sections 15a and 26c, shall be liable to a minimum fine of five million ringgit; and
in any other case, shall be liable to a minimum fine of one million ringgit.
Where, after having been convicted of any offence under this Act, a person subsequently commits another offence under this Act, he shall, on conviction, for that subsequent offence, be punished with an enhanced penalty which shall not be less than the penalty that had been imposed on him for the earlier offence.
Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a person who has been proved to the court to have acted jointly with one or more persons in the commission of the offence, the person shall, on conviction, be punished with an enhanced penalty which shall be a more severe penalty than that which would have been imposed on him if he had acted individually.