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No. 43 of 2007

Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007

Public bill · Government · Presented

Creates serious criminal offences for trafficking children or adults for forced labour, sexual exploitation or organ removal, including selling, buying, attempting or helping trafficking, with penalties up to life imprisonment. It also protects victims’ identities, restricts public access to trials, penalises soliciting sex from trafficked people, and allows prosecution of relevant conduct abroad.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to give effect to Council Framework Decision of 19 July 2002 on combating trafficking in human beings; to give effect, in part, to the United Nations Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against transnational organised crime, done at New York on 15 November 2000, and the Council of Europe Convention on action against trafficking in human beings done at Warsaw on 16 May 2005; for those purposes to amend certain enactments; to amend section 3 of the Sex Offenders Act 2001; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Last updated 12 April 2018

Sponsor
  • Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Message from the Dáil.
    Seanad
  • Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Motion.
    Seanad
  • Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: From the Seanad.
    Dáil
  • Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages.
    Seanad
  • Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Committee Stage.
    Seanad
  • Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed).
    Seanad
  • Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Second Stage.
    Seanad
  • Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages.
    Dáil
  • Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Referral to Select Committee.
    Dáil
  • Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Order for Second Stage.
    Dáil
  • Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Second Stage.
    Dáil

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