Part 1Provisions for Combatting Crime and Disorder

Chapter 3Other provisions for combatting crime and disorder

Further provision about intimidation etc.

44Collective harrassment

(1)In section 7 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (c. 40) (interpretation of sections 1 to 5), there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(3A)A person’s conduct on any occasion shall be taken, if aided, abetted, counselled or procured by another—

(a)to be conduct on that occasion of the other (as well as conduct of the person whose conduct it is); and

(b)to be conduct in relation to which the other’s knowledge and purpose, and what he ought to have known, are the same as they were in relation to what was contemplated or reasonably foreseeable at the time of the aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring.

(2)This section has effect in relation to any aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring that takes place after the coming into force of this section.