Section 50: Interpretation

In this Act -
"Agency" means the National Agency for prevention for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons, and other related matters established under section 1 of this Act;
"Commercial carriers" means any person or any public, private or other entity engaged in transporting persons, goods or mails for remuneration, hire or any other benefit;
"Confiscation" include forfeiture or the permanent deprivation of property by order of a court;
"Freezing" means temporarily prohibiting the transfer conversion, disposal or movement of money or temporarily assuming custody or control of money;
"Force" or "coercion" includes obtaining or maintaining through act of threat the labour, service, or other activities of a person by physical, legal, psychological or mental coercion, or abuse of authority;
"Minister" means the Minister of Internal Affairs;
"Slave" means a person who is held in bondage whose life, liberty, freedom and property are under absolute control of someone;
"Trafficking" includes all acts and attempted acts involved in the recruitment, transportation within or across Nigerian borders, purchases, sale, transfer, receipt or harbouring of a person involving the use of deception, coercion or debt bondage for the purpose of placing or holding the person whether for or not in involuntary servitude (domestic, sexual or reproductive) in force or bonded labour, on in slavery-like conditions;
"Trafficked person" means a victim of trafficking in persons.
"Trafficker" means a person or an entity that intends to commit, aids, abets or acquiesces to an act of trafficking in persons.