View source for Immigration (Amendment) Act, 2012 (Act 848)

==ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION==
:Section 52 amended

==PURPOSE==
AN ACT to amend the Immigration Act, 2000 (Act 573) to provide for the offence of migrant smuggling.

==DATE OF ASSENT==
27th June, 2012.

==ACT==
====Section 52 amended====
The Immigration Act, 2000 (Act 573) is amended by the insertion after section 52 (2) of section 52A
:'''"Prohibition of migrant smuggling'''
:52A. (1) A person shall not engage in migrant smuggling.

:(2) A person who engages in migrant smuggling commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of not less than six hundred and twenty-five penalty units and not more than one thousand, two hundred and fifty penalty units or to a term of imprisonment of not less than five years and not more than ten years or to both.

:(3) For the purposes of this section, migrant smuggling: 
:means the facilitation of the unlawful entry or departure from the country of a person in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit.

:(4) For the purposes of this section, "facilitation" includes
::(a) producing, procuring, providing or processing a travel or identity document by fraudulent means;
::(b) procuring by unlawful means other documentation in support of the processing of a travel or identity document; and
::(c) enabling a person who is not a national or a permanent resident to remain in the country without complying with the requirement for legally remaining in the country by any of the means mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b)".