PART 5Modern Slavery
I1I269Part 5: interpretation
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In this Part—
“competent authority” means a person who is a competent authority of the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Trafficking Convention;
“conclusive grounds decision” means a decision by a competent authority as to whether a person is a victim of slavery or human trafficking;
“positive reasonable grounds decision” has the meaning given by section 61(1);
“reasonable grounds decision” means a decision by a competent authority as to whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that a person is a victim of slavery or human trafficking;
the “Trafficking Convention” means the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (done at Warsaw on 16 May 2005);
“victim of slavery” and “victim of human trafficking” have the meanings given in regulations made by the Secretary of State.
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Regulations under subsection (1) are subject to affirmative resolution procedure.