Section 11: Trafficking in persons
consolidated text (as amended). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
11. Trafficking in persons
(1) (a) Any person who trafficks another person or allows another person to be trafficked shall commit an offence.
(b) It shall not be a defence to a charge under paragraph (a) that a
person who is a victim of trafficking or a person having control or authority
over a minor who is a victim of trafficking, has consented to the act which
was intended to constitute trafficking.
(2) Any person who knowingly—
(a) leases a room, house, building or establishment or subleases or
allows it to be used, for the purpose of harbouring a victim of
trafficking; or
(b) advertises, publishes, prints, broadcasts, distributes, or causes
the advertisement, publication, broadcast or distribution of, information which suggests or alludes to trafficking by any means,
including the use of the internet or other information technology,
shall commit an offence.
(3) (a) Every internet service provider operating in Mauritius shall be under a duty to report to the Police forthwith any site on its server which contains information in contravention of subsection (2) (b).
(b) Any internet service provider who fails to comply with paragraph (a) shall commit an offence.
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(4) Any person who knowingly benefits, financially or otherwise, from
the services of a victim of trafficking or uses, or enables another person’s
usage of, the services of a victim of trafficking shall commit an offence.