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It received Royal Assent on Thursday 26 March 2015.</p> <p>The act will:</p> <ul> <li>consolidate and simplify existing offences into a single act</li> <li>ensure that perpetrators receive suitably severe punishments for modern slavery crimes (including life sentences)</li> <li>enhance the court’s ability to put restrictions on individuals where it’s necessary to protect people from the harm caused by modern slavery offences</li> <li>create an independent anti-slavery commissioner to improve and better coordinate the response to modern slavery</li> <li>introduce a defence for victims of slavery and trafficking</li> <li>place a duty on the secretary of state to produce statutory guidance on victim identification and victim services</li> <li>enable the secretary of state to make regulations relating to the identification of and support for victims</li> <li>make provision for independent child trafficking advocates</li> <li>introduce a new reparation order to encourage the courts to compensate victims where assets are confiscated from perpetrators</li> <li>enable law enforcement to stop boats where slaves are suspected of being held or trafficked</li> <li>require businesses over a certain size to disclose each year what action they have taken to ensure there is no modern slavery in their business or supply chains</li> </ul> <p>The Modern Slavery Act and its explanatory notes are available on the <a rel="external" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/30/contents/enacted" class="govuk-link">Parliament website</a>.</p> </div> </div> </div> <h3 class="govuk-heading-m govuk-!-font-size-27" id="related-documents">Related documents</h3> <div data-module="govspeak" class="gem-c-govspeak govuk-govspeak gem-c-govspeak--direction-ltr govuk-!-margin-bottom-0"> <div class="govspeak"> </div> </div> <div class="govuk-!-margin-bottom-8"> <ul data-module="ga4-link-tracker" data-ga4-track-links-only="" data-ga4-link='{"event_name":"navigation","type":"document list"}' 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