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ACT 784
THE SEVEN HUNDRED AND
EIGHTY-FOURTH
ACT
OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE
REPUBLIC OF GHANA
ENTITLED
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
(AMENDMENT) ACT, 2009
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AN ACT to amend the Human
Trafficking Act, 2005 (Act
694) in order to redefine
human trafficking and to
provide for related
purposes.
DATE OF ASSENT: 20th
July, 2009
ENACTED by the President and
Parliament:
Section 1 of Act 694 amended
1. Section 1 of the Human
Trafficking Act, 2005 (Act
694) referred to in this Act
as the principal enactment
is amended by the
substitution for subsection
(I) of
"(1) Human trafficking means
the recruitment,
transportation, transfer,
harbouring, trading or
receipt of persons for the
purpose of exploitation
within and across national
borders by
'.
(a)
the use of threats, force or
other forms of coercion,
abduction, fraud, deception,
the abuse of power or
exploitation of
vulnerability, or
(b)
giving or receiving payments
and benefits to achieve
consent. "
Section 35 of Act 694 amended
2. The principal enactment is
amended in section 35 by the
substitution for "extradited",
of "deported".
Section 41 of the principal
enactment is amended
3. The principal enactment is
amended in section 41
(a)
in paragraph (c) by the
addition of "including formal
education for young victims"
after "the skills
training";
(b)
by transposing paragraph
"(I)" to paragraph "(g)"
and the addition of "and" at
the end of new paragraph (I);
and
(c)
by the deletion of paragraph
(h).
GOVERNMENT PRINTER. ASSEMBLY
PRESS, ACCRA. GPC/3501712009
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