division_name: Treasury &#8212; New Clause 4 &#8212; Offence of exploitation
motion: <p pid="a.725.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8216;(1) A person commits an offence if they exploit a person by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or abuse of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.725.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">(2) A person may be in a situation of exploitation whether or not&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.725.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">(a) escape from the situation is practically possible for the person; or</p>
  
  <p pid="a.725.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">(b) the person has attempted to escape from the situation.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.725.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">(3) The consent or apparent consent of the person of the exploitation is irrelevant where any of the means set forth in section 9(1) has been used.&#8217;&#8212;<i>(Diana Johnson.)</i></p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.725.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">Brought up.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.725.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put,</i> That the clause be added to the Bill.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.725.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.725.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 225, Noes 288.</p>