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CHAPTER III — CRIMINAL OFFENCES
PART 12 — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER
Division 3 — Crimes Against Humanity
Crime against humanity—enslavement
84.— (1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an indictable offence if—
(a) the perpetrator exercises any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over one or more persons (including the exercise of a power in the course of trafficking in persons,in particular women and children) ; and
(b) the perpetrator’s conduct is committed intentionally or knowingly as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population.
CHAPTER III — CRIMINAL OFFENCES
PART 12 — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER
Division 3 — Crimes Against Humanity
Crime against humanity—enslavement
84.— (2) In sub-section (1)—
“exercises any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership” over a person includes purchases, sells, lends or barters a person or imposes on a person a similar deprivation of liberty and also includes exercise a power arising from a debt incurred or contract made by a person.
Article 7
Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(c) Enslavement
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(c) ‘Enslavement’ means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to
the right of ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such
power in the course of trafficking in persons, in particular women and
children;