Cap. 452 Art. 66Use or threats of 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, wrongfully and 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 manner hinders him in the use of, any tools, clothing or other property owned or used by such other person, shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or to a fine (multa) not exceeding one thousand and one hundred and sixty-four euro and sixty-nine cents (1,164.69) or to both such imprisonment and fine, without prejudice to any heavier punishment to which the offence may be liable under any other enactment.