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Australia

Government Laws

Border Protection Legislation Amendment Act 1999
Act No.160 of 1999 which revises the Customs, Migration and Fisheries Management Acts and enhances existing powers of investigation and enforcement at sea, and implemented recommendations of the Prime Minister's Coastal Surveillance Task Force to strengthen legislative provisions relating to people smuggling..

Crimes (Child Sex Tourism) Amendment Act 1994
Act No.105 of 1994, which introduces a new "Part IIIA - Child Sex Tourism" into the Crimes Act and created offenses covering a broad range of sexual activities with children under the age of 16 committed overseas..

Criminal Code Amendment (Slavery and Sexual Servitude) Act 1999
Act No.

Migration Act 1958, Amendment 1999, (Cth), Division 12
This part of the Act covers entry into and remaining in Australia.

Offences Against Humanity: Slavery (PDF: 167 Kb) (Model Criminal Code - Chapter 9)
Model Criminal Code Project.

Crimes Legislation Amendment Act (Act No. 141 of 2002)
This amendment enables government law enforcement officials to subject people smugglers who knew that their victims were destined for involuntary sexual servitude and bonded labor to penalties equivalent to those outlined in the Slavery and Sexual Servitude Act of 1999..

HUMAN RIGHTS (SEXUAL CONDUCT) ACT 1994 - SECT 4
Arbitrary interferences with privacy SECT 4.(1) Sexual conduct involving only consenting adults acting in private is not to be subject, by or under any law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory, to any arbitrary interference with privacy within the meaning of Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Procedural rules and enforcement
There are indications that law enforcement in Burma is inadequate.

Suppression of Prostitution Act
In Burma, prostitution is discouraged and soliciting (seduction) in public is a crime.

The Burma Immigration Act 1947
The Burma Immigration Act ¹⁸ prohibits a foreigner from entering the country without an immigration permit.