Act Number: 40

Act Name: The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.

Year: 2019

Enactment Date: 2020-01-10

Long Title: An Act to provide for protection of rights of transgender persons and their welfare and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Department: Department of Social Justice and Empowerment

Section 18: Offences and penalties.
    Whoever,—
        (a) compels or entices a transgender person to indulge in the act of forced or bonded labour other than any compulsory service for public purposes imposed by Government;
        (b) denies a transgender person the right of passage to a public place or obstructs such person from using or having access to a public place to which other members have access to or a right to use;
        (c) forces or causes a transgender person to leave household, village or other place of residence; and
        (d) harms or injures or endangers the life, safety, health or well-being, whether mental or physical, of a transgender person or tends to do acts including causing physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal and emotional abuse and economic abuse, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to two years and with fine.
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