CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION.
No. 13 of 1920.
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No. 13 of 1920.
An Ordinance to restrain certain acts of intimidation.
[19th November, 1920.]
[Originally No. 13 of 1920.
Law Rer. Ord., 1924.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Intimida-
tion Ordinance, 1920.
2. Every person who threatens any other person-
(1) with any injury to the person, reputation, or property
of such other person; or
(2) with any injury to the person, reputation, or property
of any third person, or to the reputation or estate of any deceased person; or
(3) with any illegal act,
with intent in any such case-
(a) to alarm the person so threatened or any other person,
or
(b) to cause the person so threatened or any other person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or
(c) 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 against this Ordinance.
3. Every person who beats or uses any violence or force
Assaults to any person with intent in any such case to cause such
with intent person or any other person to do any act which he is not
certain acts legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which he is
to be done legally entitled to do, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
or omitted.
prove that
4. It shall be no defence to a charge under section 2 to
No defence to prove that the threat was not addressed directly to the person
the threat whose person, reputation, or property was to be injured, or
was not made to the person (if any) against whom the illegal act was to be directly.
committed, or to the person whom it was intended to alarm, or to the person whose conduct was intended to be affected, provided that 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.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.