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Offences Against the Human Body
Compelling someone by force, or inducing them by deceitful means, to go from any place, is "abduction".
This is distinct from kidnapping - abduction covers moving someone from a place through force or deception, regardless of their age or guardianship status, and (unlike kidnapping) isn't itself automatically an offence - it becomes criminal when combined with a further unlawful purpose in the sections that follow.
Deceiving an adult into travelling to a location under false pretenses constitutes abduction under this definition - though (unlike kidnapping) it only becomes independently criminal when combined with an unlawful purpose covered by the following sections.