TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (PROHIBITION) LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ACT, 2003

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TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (PROHIBITION) LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ACT, 2003

[EDITOR’S NOTE: This Act and its amendment Act of 2005 have been repealed by the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Law Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015]

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Establishment of the National Agency for Traffic in Persons Law Enforcement and Administration

1.     Establishment of National Agency for prohibition of traffic in persons.

2.     Establishment, membership, and appointment of members of the Governing Board.

3.     Tenure of office, etc.

4.     Functions of the Agency.

5.     Special power of the Agency.

6.     Secretariat and appointment of Secretary and other staff of the Agency.

7.     Pensions.

8.     Establishment of Special Departments.

9.     Duties of the Special Departments.

10.    Training programmes.

11.    Exportation of any person out of Nigeria and importation of persons into Nigeria.

12.    Procurement of any person.

13.    Causing or encouraging the seduction or prostitution of any person under eighteen years.

14.    Procurement of any person under eighteen years.

15.    Procurement of any person for prostitution, pornography and use in armed conflict.

16.    Foreign travels which promote prostitution.

17.    Unlawful detention with intent to defile.

18.    Procuring defilement of any person by threats, fraud or administering drugs.

19.    Kidnapping from guardianship.

20.    Kidnapping and abducting in order to commit culpable homicide.

21.    Buying or selling a person for a purpose.

22.    Unlawful forced labour.

23.    Traffic in slaves.

24.    Slave dealing.

25.    Effect of conviction abroad.

26.    Offence by alien.

27.    Attempt.

28.    Offence by bodies corporate.

29.    Commercial carrier.

30.    Responsibility of tour operators and travel agents.

31.    Responsibilities of Airlines. 

32.    Penalties for breach.

33.    Jurisdiction, etc.

34.    Forfeiture of passport.

35.    Forfeitures after conviction in certain cases.

36.    Forfeiture of property.

37.    Foreign assets.

38.    Property subject to forfeiture.

39.    Further provisions as to forfeiture of property.

40.    Seizure of property.

41.    Investigation of assets and properties of an arrested person.

42.    Disclosure of assets and properties by an arrested person, etc.

43.    Interim forfeiture order.

44.    Final order.

45.    Final disposal of forfeited property.

46.    Offences in relation to forfeiture orders.

47.    Consequences of an acquittal in respect of assets and properties.

48.    Freezing orders on banks or other financial institutions.

49.    Power to search, seize and arrest.

50.    Treatment of trafficked persons.

51.    Non-detention or presentation of a trafficked person in certain circumstances.

52.    Right to institute civil action.

53.    Application of certain enactment.

54.    Fund.

55.    Accounts and audit.

56.    Power to borrow money.

57.    Annual report,

58.    Obstruction of the Agency or authorised officers.

59.    Protection of informant and information.

60.    Power of the Minister to give directives to the Agency. 6 I. Offences committed outside Nigeria, etc.

61.    Right of appeal.

62.    Power to make regulations.

63.    Interpretation.

64.    Short title.

FIRST SCHEDULE – Supplementary Provisions relating to the Board, etc.

SECOND SCHEDULE

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TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (PROHIBITION) LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRAION ACT

An Act to establish the National Agency for the prohibition of traffic in persons and other related matters and to vest it with the responsibility to enforce laws against traffic in persons, investigate and prosecute persons suspected to be engaged in traffic in persons and to take charge and co-ordinate the rehabilitation and counselling of trafficked persons; and for related matters.

[2003 No. 24, 2005 No. 28.]

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[Commencement.] [14th July, 2003.]

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PART I – Establishment of the National Agency for Traffic in Persons Laws Enforcement and Administration

1.      Establishment of National Agency for prohibition of traffic in persons

(1)    There is established a body to be known as the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters (in this Act referred to as “the Agency”).

(2)    The Agency-

(a)    shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal; and

(b)    may sue and be sued in its corporate name.

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