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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-trafficking-and-exploitation-criminal-justice-and-support-for-victims-act-northern-ireland-2015/section-4",
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  "legislation": "nia/2015/2",
  "legislation_title": "Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Criminal Justice and Support for Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-trafficking-and-exploitation-criminal-justice-and-support-for-victims-act-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Committing offence with intent to commit offence under section 1 or 2",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence under this section if the person commits any offence with the intention of committing an offence under section 1 or 2 (including an offence committed by aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring an offence under that section).\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this section is (unless subsection (3) applies) liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years;\n(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both.\n(3) Where the offence under this section is committed by kidnapping or false imprisonment, a person guilty of that offence is liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for life.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/2/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:16.992081+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}