Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:2:p11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 2 (pt 11/30)
Character Range: 1077424–1080115

organises or facilitates the transportation of another person from one place in Australia to another place in Australia; and
 (b) there is an arrangement for the other person to provide sexual services; and
 (c) the first person deceives the other person about any of the following:
 (i) the nature of the sexual services to be provided;
 (ii) the extent to which the other person will be free to leave the place or area where the other person provides sexual services;
 (iii) the extent to which the other person will be free to cease providing sexual services;
 (iv) the extent to which the other person will be free to leave his or her place of residence;
 (v) if there is a debt owed or claimed to be owed by the other person in connection with the arrangement for the other person to provide sexual services—the quantum, or the existence, of the debt owed or claimed to be owed.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 years.
 (3) Absolute liability applies to paragraph (1)(c).

271.6  Domestic trafficking in persons—aggravated offence
 (1) A person (the first person) commits an aggravated offence of domestic trafficking in persons if the first person commits the offence of domestic trafficking in persons in relation to another person (the victim) and any of the following applies:
 (a) the first person commits the offence intending that the victim will be exploited, either by the first person or by another, after arrival at the place to which the person has been transported;
 (b) the first person, in committing the offence, subjects the victim to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment;
 (c) the first person, in committing the offence:
 (i) engages in conduct that gives rise to a danger of death or serious harm to the victim or another person; and
 (ii) is reckless as to that danger.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 20 years.
 (2) If, on a trial for an offence against this section, the court, or if the trial is before a jury, the jury, is not satisfied that the defendant is guilty of the aggravated offence, but is satisfied that he or she is guilty of an offence against section 271.5, it may find the defendant not guilty of the aggravated offence, but guilty of an offence against that section.
 (3) Subsection (2) only applies if the defendant has been afforded procedural fairness in relation to the finding of guilt for the offence against section 271.5.
Note: Section 271.5 provides for offences of domestic trafficking in persons.

271.7  Offence of domestic trafficking in children
  A person commits an offence of domestic trafficking in children if:
 (a) the first‑mentioned person organises or facilitates the transportation of another person from one place in Australia to