# The Immigration (Variation of Leave) Order 2016, 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—
(a) a domestic worker in a private household, or
(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);
“victim of modern slavery” means a victim of—
(a) trafficking in human beings, which has the same meaning as provided in article 4 of the Trafficking Convention; or
(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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/948/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-variation-of-leave-order-2016/article-2
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