Part 5—Protection of victims
- (a) remaining in the United Kingdom beyond the time limited by his or her leave to enter or remain, or
- (b) breaching a condition of that leave relating to his or her employment,
if he or she did so because of the matters relied on as slavery or human trafficking.
(7) In this section—
- “enforcement action” has the meaning given by section 24A of the Immigration Act 1971;
- “immigration rules” has the same meaning as in that Act;
- “overseas domestic worker” means a person who, under the immigration rules, has (or last had) leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom as—
- (a) a domestic worker in a private household, or
- (b) a private servant in a diplomatic household.
Part 6
Transparency in supply chains etc
54Transparency in supply chains etc
(1) A commercial organisation within subsection (2) must prepare a slavery and human trafficking statement for each financial year of the organisation.
(2) A commercial organisation is within this subsection if it—
- (a) supplies goods or services, and
- (b) has a total turnover of not less than an amount prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)(b), an organisation’s total turnover is to be determined in accordance with regulations made by the Secretary of State.
(4) A slavery and human trafficking statement for a financial year is—
- (a) a statement of the steps the organisation has taken during the financial year to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place—
- (i) in any of its supply chains, and
- (ii) in any part of its own business, or
- (b) a statement that the organisation has taken no such steps.
(5) An organisation’s slavery and human trafficking statement may include information about—
- (a) the organisation’s structure, its business and its supply chains;
- (b) its policies in relation to slavery and human trafficking;
- (c) its due diligence processes in relation to slavery and human trafficking in its business and supply chains;
- (d) the parts of its business and supply chains where there is a risk of slavery and human trafficking taking place, and the steps it has taken to assess and manage that risk;
- (e) its effectiveness in ensuring that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in its business or supply chains, measured against such performance indicators as it considers appropriate;
- (f) the training about slavery and human trafficking available to its staff.
