The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Duty to Notify) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

This Statutory Instrument has been made to correct errors in SI 2015/1743 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2016 No. 762

Modern Slavery, England And Wales

The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Duty to Notify) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Made

13th July 2016

Laid before Parliament

18th July 2016

Coming into force

10th August 2016

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 52(2) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015(1), makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Duty to Notify) (Amendment) Regulations 2016.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 10th August 2016.

Amendments to the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Duty to Notify) Regulations 2015

2.—(1) The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Duty to Notify) Regulations 2015(2) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3(1), for “paragraphs (2) and (4)”, substitute “paragraph (2), as read with paragraph (2A), and paragraph (4)”.

(3) In regulation 3(2), for “person”, substitute “victim” in each place in which it occurs.

(4) After regulation 3(2), insert—

“(2A) Nothing in paragraph (2) shall be read as requiring the consent of any person in paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 whom the public authority believes may also have been the victim of slavery or human trafficking by the same perpetrator.”.

(5) In paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 1, omit “the public authority must include” and “in the notification”.

Karen Bradley

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

13th July 2016

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Duty to Notify) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1743) to correct minor drafting defects.

The Regulations specify that, where the principal victim to whom the notification relates has given their consent or is under the age of 18, no further consent is required from the suspected perpetrators or other suspected victims of those same perpetrators for a public authority to provide the information listed in Schedule 2. The Regulations also remove duplication in one sub-paragraph in Schedule 1.

(1)

2015 c. 30.

(2)

S.I. 2015/1743.