CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION ORDINANCE

CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 205.

CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION.

To restrain certain acts of intimidation.

[19th November, 1920.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Intimidation
Ordinance.

2. Any person who threatens any other person-

(a) with any injury to the person, reputation or property of such
other person ; or

(b) with any injury to the person, reputation or property of any
third person, or to the reputation or estate of any deceased
person; or

(c) with any illegal act, with intent in any such case

(i) to alarm the person so threatened or any other. person,
or

(ii) to cause the person so threatened or any other person
to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or

(iii) to cause the person so threatened or any other person
to omit to do any act which he is legally entitled to do,
shall be guilty of an offence.

3. Any person who beats or uses any violence or force to any
person with intent in any such case to cause such person or any other
person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to
do any act which he is legally entitled to do, shall be guilty of an
offence.

4. It shall be no defence to a charge under section 2 to prove that
the threat was not addressed directly to the person whose person,
reputation or property was to be injured., or to the person (if any.)
against whom the illegal act was to be committed, or to the person
whom it was intended to alarm, or to the person whose conduct was
intended to be affected, if the threat was made or published in some
manner with the intention that it should reach the person whom it was
intended to alarm, or (as the case may





be) whose conduct was intended to be affected, and that it
did reach such person.

5. Any person who commits an offence against this
Ordinance, and any person who attempts to do any act which
would be an offence against this Ordinance, shall upon sum-
mary conviction be liable to a fine of two thousand dollars
and to imprisonment for two years and shall upon conviction
on indictment be liable to imprisonment for five years.
Originally 13 of 1920. Fraser 13 of 1920. 22 of 1950. Short title. Certain acts of intimidation prohibited. Indian Penal Code, s. 503. Assaults with intent to cause certain acts to be done or omitted. No defence to prove that the threat was not made directly. Penalties. 22 of 1950, Schedule.

Originally 13 of 1920. Fraser 13 of 1920. 22 of 1950. Short title. Certain acts of intimidation prohibited. Indian Penal Code, s. 503. Assaults with intent to cause certain acts to be done or omitted. No defence to prove that the threat was not made directly. Penalties. 22 of 1950, Schedule.

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