Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007 · Updated to 30 Sep 2025 · Part II · Council for Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants
7. Functions and powers of the Council
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
The Council shall perform the following functions:
Council
“Council” means the Council for Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants established under section 6;
coordinating the implementation of this Act;
formulating policies and programmes to prevent and combat trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants;
formulating protective programmes for trafficked persons;
initiating education programmes to increase public awareness of the causes and consequences of the act of trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants;
monitoring the immigration and emigration patterns in
Malaysia for evidence of trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants and to secure the prompt response of the relevant government agencies and non-governmental organizations to problems on trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants brought to its attention;
advising the Government on the issues of trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants including developments at the international level against trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants;
making recommendations to the Minister on all aspects of the prevention and combating of trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants;
coordinating the formulation of policies and monitoring the implementation of such policies on issues of trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants with relevant government agencies and non-governmental organizations;
cooperating and coordinating with governments and international organizations on trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants;
collecting and collating data and information, and authorising research, in relation to the prevention and combating of trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants;
paying any allowance, subject to the availability of funds, to a trafficked person as the Council may determine;
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performing any other functions for the proper implementation of this Act.
The Council shall have all such powers as may be necessary for, or in connection with, or reasonably incidental to, the performance of its functions.
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);
trafficked person
Defined · s 2“trafficked person” means any person who is the victim or object of an act of 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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