Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

Moved by

Lord Rosser

104A: After Clause 172, insert the following new Clause—

“Child criminal exploitation

In section 3 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (meaning of exploitation), at the end insert—

“Child criminal exploitation

(7) Another person manipulates, deceives, coerces or controls the person to undertake activity which constitutes a criminal offence and the person is under the age of 18.””

Member’s explanatory statement

This new Clause would introduce a statutory definition of child criminal exploitation.