TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

CHAPTER 7:06
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Scope of application

PART II
ADMINISTRATION

    4.    National Coordination Committee against Trafficking in Persons

    5.    Composition of the Committee

    6.    Chairperson of the Committee

    7.    Tenure of office

    8.    Functions and powers of the Committee

    9.    Duties of the Committee

    10.    Meetings of the Committee

    11.    Allowances on Committee

    12.    Procedure

    13.    Minutes of the Committee

PART III
OFFENCES

    14.    Trafficking in persons

    15.    Trafficking in children

    16.    Aggravated form of trafficking

    17.    Trafficking in persons an offence involving dishonesty and moral turpitude

    18.    Prohibition against working with children

    19.    Court to order closure of an establishment

    20.    Benefiting from exploitation of trafficked persons

    21.    Attempts, aiding or abetting to commit an offence

    22.    Duty to report

    23.    Liability of legal person

    24.    Carrier liability

    25.    Other acts that promote or facilitate trafficking

PART IV
INVESTIGATION AND CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

    26.    Designation of enforcement officers

    27.    Powers of enforcement officer

    28.    Duties of enforcement officer

    29.    Identification of enforcement officers

    30.    Arrest by person who is not a police officer

    31.    Records

    32.    Search and seizure

    33.    Search and seizure without warrant

    34.    List of seized items

    35.    Access to electronic data

    36.    Burden of proof

    37.    Confiscation

    38.    Disposal of confiscated property

    39.    Acquittal and assets

    40.    Right to institute civil action

    41.    Obstruction

    42.    Immunity of trafficked person

PART V
CARE AND PROTECTION

    43.    Appointment of protection officers

    44.    Duties of protection officer

    45.    Shelters

PART VI
WITNESS PROTECTION

    46.    Restriction on disclosure

    47.    Witness protection

    48.    Application for protection

    49.    Confidentiality

PART VII
FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

    50.    Funding of the Committee

    51.    Anti-Trafficking Fund

    52.    Purpose of the Fund

    53.    Management of the Fund

    54.    Accounts and Audit

    55.    Financial year

    56.    Annual report

PART VIII
MISCELLANEOUS

    57.    General Penalty

    58.    Amendment of Schedule

    59.    Regulations

        FIRST SCHEDULE

        SECOND SCHEDULE

        THIRD SCHEDULE

3 of 2015
G.N. 39/2015

    An Act to make provision for the prevention and elimination of trafficking in persons; to provide for the establishment of the National Coordination Committee against Trafficking in Persons for the coordination and management of matters related to trafficking in persons; and to provide for matters incidental thereto and connected therewith

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Trafficking in Persons Act.

2.    Interpretation

    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

    “AIDS” means Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome;

    “child” means a person below the age of eighteen years;

    “Committee” means the National Coordination Committee against Trafficking in Persons established under section 4;

    “exploitation” includes—

    (a)    forced labour or any extraction of work or services from a person;

    (b)    the forced participation of a person in all forms of commercial sexual activity such as prostitution, sexually-explicit performance, or in the production of pornography;

    (c)    the removal of body parts or the extraction of organs or tissue; or

    (d)    any other practice in terms of which it cannot be said that the person participated willingly;

    “Fund” means the Anti-Trafficking Fund established under section 51;

    “HIV” means the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus which causes AIDS;

    “organized criminal group” means a group of two or more persons, existing for a period of time and acting in concert with the aim of committing an offence under this Act;

    “relative” means—

    (a)    a parent, step parent, foster parent, grand parent, sibling, guardian or any person who has legal custody over the child or to whom the child is a dependent; or

    (b)    at the time the offence under the Act is committed, a person who is living with the child as a member of that person’s family or was under the person’s family care and protection;

    “substantial health risk” means—

    (a)    infection with—

        (i)    HIV;

        (ii)    a sexually transmitted disease; or

        (iii)    any other highly contagious or infectious disease;

    (b)    any medical condition, occasioned as a result of the exploitation;

    “trafficked person” means a person or child who has suffered harm, including mental and physical injury, emotional suffering, economic loss or substantial impairment of the persons fundamental human rights through acts that contravene sections 14 and 15;

    “trafficking in persons” means recruiting, transporting, transferring, harbouring, receiving or obtaining a person, within or beyond the territory of Malawi, through—

    (a)    threats or use of force or coercion;

    (b)    abduction;

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