Section 3Part 1 — PRELIMINARY
Stalking
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A person stalks another person if the first-mentioned person intentionally engages in a course of conduct specified under subsection (2), which —
is directed towards the second-mentioned person;
occurs on two or more occasions within a period of twelve months;
causes the second-mentioned person to fear for the second mentioned-person’s safety or the safety of someone known to second-mentioned person;
would cause a reasonable person to fear for the second-mentioned person’s safety or the safety of someone known to the second-mentioned person; and
the first-mentioned person knows or ought to know would cause that second-mentioned person to fear for the second-mentioned person’s safety or the safety of someone known to the second-mentioned person.
For the purposes of subsection (1), a course of conduct in relation to a person includes —
watching, besetting or loitering near that person;
approaching or entering a place where that person resides, works or visits;
preventing or hindering access to or from that person’s place of residence, business, employment, learning or any other location which that person visits;
following or accosting that person;
entering or interfering with that person’s property;
engaging in verbal, written, electronic or any other form of communication with that person;
giving offensive, abusive or threatening material to that person or leaving it where it will be found by, given to, or brought to the attention of that person;
sending, delivering or showing to that person letters, images, telegrams, packages, facsimiles or electronic messages;
acting covertly in a way that could reasonably be expected to arouse apprehension or fear in that person; or
intimidating, harassing or molesting that person.
A course of conduct under subsection (2) may be the same course of conduct or different courses of conduct pursued on each occasion in a public or a private place.