Section 314 - Slave dealing

(1) A person commits a second degree felony who

(a) deals or trades in, buys, sells, barters, transfers, or takes a slave; or

(b) deals or trades in, buys, sells, barters, transfers, or takes another person in order that the other person may be held or treated as a slave; or

(c) places or receives a person in servitude as a pledge or security for debt, whether then due and owing or to be incurred or contingent, whether under the name of a pawn or by any other name by which the other person may be called; or

(d) conveys a person, or induces a person to come, to the Republic to be dealt with as a slave or traded in, bought, sold, bartered as a slave, or become a slave, or be placed in servitude as a pledge or security for a debt; or

(e) conveys or sends a person, or induces a person to go out of the Republic to be dealt with as a slave or traded in, bought, sold, bartered, transferred as slave or become a slave, or be placed in servitude as a pledge or security for a debt; or

(f) enters into a contract or an agreement with or without consideration for doing any of the acts or accomplishing any of the purposes mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e); or

(g) by any species of coercion or restraint otherwise than in accordance with the Labour Act, compels or attempts to compel the service of a person.

(2) This section does not apply to a coercion that may lawfully be exercised by virtue of a contract of service between free persons, or by virtue of the rights of parents and other rights, which are not contrary to law, arising out of the family relations customarily used and observed in the Republic.