individual or the use of the individual in any audio or visual recording or representation of such act;
"trafficked victim" means an individual against whom an offence under section 3 is committed, and includes an alleged victim of the offence.
PART 2
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
Trafficking in persons
3.—(1) Any person who recruits, transports, transfers, harbours or receives an individual (other than a child) by means of—
- (a) the threat or use of force, or any other form of coercion;
- (b) abduction;
- (c) fraud or deception;
- (d) the abuse of power,
- (e) the abuse of the position of vulnerability of the individual; or the giving to, or the receipt by, another person having control over that individual of any money or other benefit to secure that other person's consent,
for the purpose of the exploitation (whether in Singapore or elsewhere) of the individual shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person who recruits, transports, transfers, harbours or receives a child for the purpose of the exploitation (whether in Singapore or elsewhere) of the child shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) In determining whether an offence has been committed under this section, the following shall be irrelevant:
- (a) in the case where the alleged victim of the offence is a child, whether the child, or the child's parent or guardian, consented to the actual or intended exploitation;
- (b) in any other case, whether the alleged victim of the offence consented to the actual or intended exploitation.
