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PREVENTION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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- would result in serious harm to or physical restraint of the individual or the other individual; or
- (c) any abuse or threat related to the legal status of the individual or the other individual;
"conjugal partner", in relation to a trafficked victim at a given point in time, means the individual with whom the trafficked victim was in a relationship as if the individual were the trafficked victim's spouse at that point in time;
"debt bondage" means a status or condition arising from—
- (a) the pledging by a debtor of the personal services of the debtor or an individual under the debtor's control, as security for a debt; and
- (b) the reasonable value of such services not being applied towards the discharge of the debt, or the length or nature of such services not being limited or defined, respectively;
"document" has the same meaning as in section 29 of the Penal Code (Cap. 224);
"exploitation" means sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery or any practice similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of an organ;
“Minister" means the Minister charged with the responsibility for home affairs;
"practice similar to slavery" includes debt bondage, serfdom or any servile form of marriage;
"premises" includes—
- (a) any building or structure, whether permanent or temporary;
- (b) any land, whether built on or not;
- (c) any place, whether open or enclosed, including any place situated underground or underwater;
- (d) any vehicle, train, vessel or aircraft; and
