Cap. 527 Art. 19Threatens to use violence.

Any person who, for the purpose of compelling any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or to abstain from doing under the provisions of this Act, wrongfully or without legal authority -

(a) uses or threatens to use violence against such person, or the wife, husband or child of such person, or a member of his household, or causes or threatens to cause damage to his property;

(b) persistently follows such other person from place to place;

(c) watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides or the approaches to such house or place;

(d) deprives such person, or in any matter hinders him in the use of, any tools, clothing or other property owned or used by such other person, shall be guilty of any offence and be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to a fine (multa) of not less than five hundred euro (€500) and of not more than five thousand euro (€5,000) or to both such imprisonment and fine, without prejudice to any heavier punishment to which the offence may be liable under any other enactment: Provided that where as a result of his conduct the person convicted has achieved his aim the punishment of imprisonment shall be increased by one to two degrees and the fine (multa) shall not be less than one thousand five hundred euro ((€1,500) and not more than ten thousand euro (€10,000).