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<p>Created page with &quot;==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 :&#039;&#039;&#039;&quot;Prohibition of migrant smuggling&#039;&#039;&#039; :52A. (1) A person shall not engage in migrant smuggling. :(2) A person who engages in migrant smug...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>==ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION==<br /> :Section 52 amended<br /> <br /> ==PURPOSE==<br /> AN ACT to amend the Immigration Act, 2000 (Act 573) to provide for the offence of migrant smuggling.<br /> <br /> ==DATE OF ASSENT==<br /> 27th June, 2012.<br /> <br /> ==ACT==<br /> ====Section 52 amended====<br /> The Immigration Act, 2000 (Act 573) is amended by the insertion after section 52 (2) of section 52A<br /> :&#039;&#039;&#039;&quot;Prohibition of migrant smuggling&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> :52A. (1) A person shall not engage in migrant smuggling.<br /> <br /> :(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.<br /> <br /> :(3) For the purposes of this section, migrant smuggling: <br /> :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.<br /> <br /> :(4) For the purposes of this section, &quot;facilitation&quot; includes<br /> ::(a) producing, procuring, providing or processing a travel or identity document by fraudulent means;<br /> ::(b) procuring by unlawful means other documentation in support of the processing of a travel or identity document; and<br /> ::(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)&quot;.</div>

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