Government has tabled a new law fighting transnational organised crime.The Transnational Organised Crime Bill 2013 makes it an offence to participate in a criminal organisation, smuggle or traffick in persons and forge or falsify travel documents.It also sets out how victims of trafficking can be repatriated from Bermuda.Those who participate in a criminal organisation would receive a $50,000 fine or a prison term of five years or both. But on conviction on indictment a participant in a criminal organisation would face an unlimited fine and a ten-year term of imprisonment.It defines a criminal organisation as a group of three or more persons “who have as their objective, or one of their objectives, obtaining directly or indirectly, a material benefit from the committal of a serious offence against a law of a jurisdiction by the organisation, or a member, an associate member, or a prospective member, of the organisation, but does not include a group that is randomly formed for the immediate commission of a single offence.”People smugglers and traffickers would face a $50,000 fine or five years imprisonment on summary conviction and an unlimited fine or 20 years in prison on conviction on indictment.The bill also creates a number of travel documentation offences, including forging or falsifying a travel document for the purposes of people smuggling, knowingly possessing, and dealing with, forged travel documentation.Those guilty of the travel documentation offences would face a $50,000 fine or five years in prison on summary conviction, or a fine of $100,000 or ten years’ imprisonment on conviction on indictment.The measures are intended to give effect to the 2004 Palermo Convention on Transnational Organised Crime.