Crimes Legislation Amendment (International Crime Cooperation and Other Measures) Act 2018 (34 of 2018)

Schedule 6   Slavery-like offences and relevant evidence

Part 1   Slavery-like offences

Criminal Code Act 1995

6   Section 270.1A of the Criminal Code

Insert:

debt bondage is the condition of a person (the first person ) if:

(a) the condition arises from a pledge:

(i) by the first person of the personal services of the first person; or

(ii) by another person of the personal services of the first person, and the first person is under the other person's control; or

(iii) by the first person of the personal services of another person who is under the first person's control; and

(b) the pledge is made as security for a debt owed, or claimed to be owed, (including any debt incurred, or claimed to be incurred, after the pledge is given) by the person making the pledge; and

(c) any of the following apply:

(i) the debt owed or claimed to be owed is manifestly excessive;

(ii) the reasonable value of those services is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or purported debt;

(iii) the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined.