England and Wales
1Prohibition of harassment
1
A person must not pursue a course of conduct—
a
which amounts to harassment of another, and
b
which he knows or ought to know amounts to harassment of the other.
2
For the purposes of this section, the person whose course of conduct is in question ought to know that it amounts to harassment of another if a reasonable person in possession of the same information would think the course of conduct amounted to harassment of the other.
3
Subsection (1) does not apply to a course of conduct if the person who pursued it shows—
a
that it was pursued for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime,
b
that it was pursued under any enactment or rule of law or to comply with any condition or requirement imposed by any person under any enactment, or
c
that in the particular circumstances the pursuit of the course of conduct was reasonable.