Offences of trafficking in persons

(1) A person who engages in, conspires to engage in or attempts to engage in, or assists another person to engage in, or organizes or directs another person to engage in, trafficking in persons commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term of eight years. (2) Where the victim of the offence of trafficking in person is a child, the offender is liable on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term of twelve years. (3) The recruitment, transportation, harbouring, receipt of a child, or the giving of payments or benefits to obtain the consent of a person having the control of a child, for the purpose of exploitation, constitutes trafficking in persons irrespective of whether any of the elements of the definition of “trafficking in persons” is present or not in any case.