In this Act unless the context otherwise requires
“abduction” has the meaning attributed to it in the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29);
“authorized officer” means an immigration officer, a police officer or any other officer authorized by the Ministry of Interior to implement any provision of this Act;
“basic material support” includes education, health care, shelter, counseling and nutritional requirements;
“bonded placement” includes placement by a trafficker of a person for exploitative purposes with a promise of subsequent payment to the trafficker for the placement of the trafficked person by the user of the trafficked person and the placement of a trafficked person to offset a debt already owed by the trafficker or another person;
“care and protection” has the same meaning as basic material support;
“child” means a person below eighteen years;
“coercion” means a threat of serious injury to or physical restraint against a person, a scheme, plan or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that failure to perform an act will result in serious injury to or physical restraint of a person;
“court” means court of competent jurisdiction;
“District Assembly” includes a Metropolitan Assembly and Municipal Assembly;
“foreign authority” means a person designated by a foreign government as a competent authority to act on behalf of a foreign government for purposes of this Act;
“Fund” means the Human Trafficking Fund established under section 20;
“government” means the authority by which the executive authority of Ghana is duly exercised;
“government agency” means an establishment in this country by virtue of an enactment and an establishment approved by the Ministry;
“guardian” means a social welfare officer, probation officer, health care provider, leader, district labour officer, or any other person who intervenes in the best interest of a child;
“injury” includes physical, emotional and psychological hurt;
“Organization” means Civil Society Organizations which includes community based organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, Traditional Authorities, religious bodies and associations;
“Management Board” means Human Trafficking Management Board;
“Minister” means Minister responsible for Women and Children’s Affairs;
“Ministry” means the Ministry responsible for Women and Children’s Affairs;
“next friend” means a person who intervenes to assist a child in a legal action;
“organs” include a part of the human body which can be removed and used to sustain life any purpose;
“place of safety” means premises where the welfare of a victim of trafficking is
“placement as service” means the placement of a person by a trafficker for exploitative purposes where the service of that person is not remunerated;
“police officer” includes an officer from another security service;
“private sector” means the part of the economy which is not funded by the Government or from moneys provided by Parliament;
“security services” includes the Police, Customs, Excise and Preventive Service, the Immigration Service and Bureau of National Investigation;
“servitude” means involuntary bondage;
“social welfare officer” includes a probation officer;
“temporary placement” means the transfer of a trafficked person for limited period for exploitative purposes;
“trafficked person” means a victim of trafficking; and
“trafficking” has the meaning provided under section 1;