TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (PROHIBITION) LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005

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TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (PROHIBITION) LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005

[EDITOR’S NOTE: This Act which amended the Trafficking in Persons (prohibition) Law Enforcement and Administration Act, 2003, has been repealed by the Trafficking in Persons Prohibition) Law Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015]

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

This Act provides sundry amendments to the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Law  Enforcement and Administration Act, 2003, No. 24 to expand its scope from investigation  to prosecution of human traffickers, seizure of properties and forfeiture.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.       Amendment of 2003 No. 24

2.       Amendment of Section 2

3.       Amendment of Section 3

4.       Amendment of Section 4

5.       Amendment of Section 5

6.       Amendment of Section 6

7.       Substitution of the word “unit”

8.       Amendment of Section 9

9.       Amendment of Section 15

10.     Amendment of Section 22

11.     Amendment of Section 29

12.     Amendment of Section 32

13.     Amendment of Section 33

14.     Insertion of new sections

15.     Re-numbering of Sections 35 – 37 of the Principal Act

16.     Re-numbering of Section 38 of the Principal Act, insertion and deletion

17.     Re-numbering of Section 40 of the principal Act and insertion of sub-section (2)

18.     Re-numbering of Sections 41 -49 of the Principal Act

19.     Re-numbering of Section 50 of the Principal Act and insertion of words

20.     Re-numbering of Section 51 of the Principal Act

21.     Amendment of Schedule to the Principal Act

22.     Short Title

Schedule

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TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (PROHIBITION) LAW ENFORECEMENT AND  ADMINISTRATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005

An Act to amend the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Law Enforcement and Administration Act, 2003, No. 24; and for related matters.

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[Commencement]            [2^nd Day of December, 2005]

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ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria –

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