Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

• “competent authority” means a person who is a competent authority of the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Trafficking Convention;

• “overseas domestic worker” means a person who, under the immigration rules, has leave to enter the United Kingdom as—

  1. (a)

     a domestic worker in a private household, or

  2. (b)

     a private servant in a diplomatic household;

• “Trafficking Convention” means the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (agreed at Warsaw on 16 May 2005)^f1;

• “victim of modern slavery” means a victim of—

  1. (a)

     trafficking in human beings, which has the same meaning as provided in article 4 of the Trafficking Convention; or

  2. (b)

     slavery, servitude, or forced or compulsory labour, which have the same meanings as they have for the purposes of article 4 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (agreed by the Council of Europe at Rome on 4 November 1950)^f2.