Criminal Code Act of 1995

Division 270 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) prohibits slavery and slavery-like offences. Section 270.1A defines these offences and related terms including coercion, forced labor, and forced marriage. Section 270.2 specifies that slavery offences are unlawful, whether committed inside or outside of Australia. Section 270.4 criminalizes servitude offences, 270.6A criminalizes forced labor offenses, section 270.7B criminalizes forced marriage offences, section 270.8 criminalizes slavery-like offences, 271.2 criminalizes trafficking in persons, 271.4 criminalizes trafficking in children, and 271.5 criminalizes domestic trafficking in persons. Section 270.11 clarifies that for all above offences it is not a defence that a person consented to or acquiesced to prohibited conduct.

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