Additional relevant legislation

The following legislation may also be relevant to disrupt modern slavery offending.

Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004

• Section 26 – authorisation of closure notice

Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004

• Section 4 – trafficking people for exploitation

Children Act 1989

• Section 17 – provision of services for children in need, their families and others
• Section 46 – removal and accommodation of children by police in cases of emergency
• Section 47 – Local Authority’s duty to investigate

Children and Young Persons Act 1933

• Section 1 – cruelty to persons under sixteen
• Section 3 – allowing persons under sixteen to be in brothels
• Section 4 – causing or allowing persons under sixteen to be used for begging

Coroners and Justice Act 2009

• Section 71 – slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour

Criminal Justice Act 1988

• Section 39 – common assault and battery to be summary offences

Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003

• Section 22 – trafficking in prostitution etc.

Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010

• Section 47 – slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour

Criminal Law Act 1977

• Section 1A – conspiracy to commit offences outside the United Kingdom

Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995

• Section 271 – vulnerable witnesses: main definitions

Domestic Violence – Crime and Victims Act 2004

• Section 5 – causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult

Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981

• Sections 1 to 5 – Forgery and Kindred Offences

Fraud Act 2006

• Section 1 – offence of fraud
• Section 11 – obtaining services dishonestly

Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004

• Section 12 – offences: acting as a gangmaster, being in possession of false documents etc.
• Section 13 – offences: entering into arrangements with gangmasters
• Schedule 2 – application of Act to Northern Ireland

Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Criminal Justice and Support for Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015

• Section 2 – arranging or facilitating the travel of another person for the purpose of exploiting them in any part of the world

Identity Documents Act 2010

• Sections 4 to 6 – False Identity Documents, etc.

Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

• Section 3 – restriction of importation and exportation of controlled drugs
• Sections 4 to 7 – restrictions relating to controlled drugs etc.
• Sections 8 to 9 – miscellaneous offences involving controlled drugs etc.

Offences against the Person Act 1861

• Section 16 – threats to kill
• Section 18 – wounding or causing grievous bodily harm with intent
• Section 20 – inflicting bodily injury, with or without weapon
• Section 24 – maliciously administering poison, etc. with intent to injure, aggrieve or annoy any other person
• Section 47 – assault occasioning bodily harm

Policing and Crime Act 2009

• Section 34 – injunctions to prevent gang-related violence

Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

• Section 6 (4) and (5) – making a confiscation order
• Section 75 – criminal lifestyle (definition)
• Sections 327 to 329 – money laundering

Serious Crime Act 2015

• Section 45 – offence of participating in activities of organised crime group

Sexual Offences Act 1956

• Section 33A – keeping a brothel used for prostitution
• Section 34 – landlord letting premises for use as a brothel
• Sections 35 and 36 – allowing a tenant to use premises as a brothel or for the purposes of prostitution

Sexual Offences Act 2003

• Section 1 – rape
• Section 2 – assault by penetration
• Section 3 – sexual assault
• Section 4 – causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent
• Section 47 – paying for sexual services of a child
• Section 48 – causing or inciting child prostitution or pornography
• Section 49 – controlling a child prostitute or a child involved in pornography
• Section 50 – arranging or facilitating child prostitution or pornography
• Section 52 – causing or inciting prostitution for gain
• Section 53 – controlling prostitution for gain
• Section 53A – paying for sexual services of a prostitute subjected to force etc.

Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008

• Article 64 – keeping a brothel used for prostitution
• Article 64A – paying for sexual services of a prostitute subjected to force etc.

Theft Act 1968

• Section 1 – basic definition of theft

UK Borders Act 2007

• Section 44 – search for evidence of nationality

Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006

• Section 54 – forfeiture and detention of vehicles etc.

Common law

• Kidnap
• False imprisonment

International law

• European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
• Directive 2011/36/EU on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and Protecting its Victims
• UN protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, supplementing the United Nations convention against transnational organized crime