(1)This section applies for the interpretation of sections 1 to 5.
(2)References to harassing a person include alarming the person or causing the person distress.
(3)A “course of conduct” must involve conduct on at least two occasions.
[F1(3A)A person’s conduct on any occasion shall be taken, if aided, abetted, counselled or procured by another—
(a)to be conduct on that occasion of the other (as well as conduct of the person whose conduct it is); and
(b)to be conduct in relation to which the other’s knowledge and purpose, and what he ought to have known, are the same as they were in relation to what was contemplated or reasonably foreseeable at the time of the aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring.]
(4)“Conduct” includes speech.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 7(3A) inserted (1.8.2001) by 2001 c. 16, s. 44(1)(2); S.I. 2001/2223, art. 3(b)