KUALA LUMPUR: The Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants (Amendment) Act 2022 will come into effect tomorrow after receiving royal assent on Jan 19.
Home minister Hamzah Zainudin said the law was Malaysia’s main legal instrument in tackling modern slavery and to curb human trafficking and smuggling of migrants.
“Overall, there are 19 provisions amended with improvements to the definition of human trafficking and repealing the definition of coercion as well as increasing the jail sentence and the introduction of whipping,” he said in a statement tonight.
He said other amendments related to the creation of ministerial powers in the appointment of any civil servant as an enforcement officer, and the inclusion of members from other organisations and NGOs in the Council for Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants.
The expansion of the role of the women, family and community development ministry in the management and control of protective officers and shelters for human trafficking victims were included in the amendments, he added.
He said a whole-of-government and a whole-of-society approach was used and was confident that it would improve Malaysia’s standing in any international evaluation and boost the country’s image globally. - FMT
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