Major investigation and public protection
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.
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