Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure 2011

Article 3 W

1 W Each State Party shall ensure that, as a minimum, the following acts and activities are fully covered under its criminal or penal law, whether these offences are committed domestically or transnationally or on an individual or organized basis:

(a) in the context of sale of children as defined in article 2:

(i) the offering, delivering or accepting, by whatever means, a child for the purpose of:

a. sexual exploitation of the child;

b. transfer of organs of the child for profit;

c. engagement of the child in forced labour;

(ii) improperly inducing consent, as an intermediary, for the adoption of a child in violation of applicable international legal instruments on adoption;

(b) offering, obtaining, procuring or providing a child for child prostitution, as defined in article 2;

(c) producing, distributing, disseminating, importing, exporting, offering, selling or possessing for the above purposes child pornography as defined in article 2.

2 W Subject to the provisions of a State Party's national law, the same shall apply to an attempt to commit any of these acts and to complicity or participation in any of these acts.

3 W Each State Party shall make these offences punishable by appropriate penalties that take into account their grave nature.

4 W Subject to the provisions of its national law, each State Party shall take measures, where appropriate, to establish the liability of legal persons for offences established in paragraph 1 of the present article. Subject to the legal principles of the State Party, this liability of legal persons may be criminal, civil or administrative.

5 W States Parties shall take all appropriate legal and administrative measures to ensure that all persons involved in the adoption of a child act in conformity with applicable international legal instruments.