Section 155Part 5 — Offences Injurious to the Public in General
Stalking
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155. (1) A person stalks another person if the first-mentioned person intentionally engages in a course of conduct specified under subsection (2), which —
is directed towards the second-mentioned person;
occurs on two or more occasions within a period of twelve months;
causes the second-mentioned person to fear for the second-mentioned person’s safety or the safety of someone known to the second-mentioned person;
would cause a reasonable person to fear for the second-mentioned person’s safety or the safety of someone known to the second-mentioned person; and
the first-mentioned person knows or ought to know would cause the second mentioned person to fear for the second-mentioned person’s safety or the safety of someone known to the second-mentioned person.
For the purposes of subsection (1), a course of conduct in relation to a person includes —
watching, besetting or loitering near that person;
approaching or entering a place where that person resides, works or visits;
preventing or hindering access to or from that person’s place of residence, business, employment, learning or any other location which that person visits;
following or accosting that person;
entering or interfering with that person’s property;
engaging in verbal, written, electronic or any other form of communication with that person;
giving offensive, abusive or threatening material to that person or leaving it where it will be found by, given to, or brought to the attention of that person;
sending, delivering or showing to that person letters, images, telegrams, packages, facsimiles or electronic messages;
acting covertly in a way that could reasonably be expected to arouse apprehension or fear in that person; or
intimidating, harassing or molesting that person.
A person who stalks another person commits an offence and is liable —
on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term of four years or both; or
on summary conviction, to a fine of five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term of one year or both. Penal Code (2026 Revision) Section 156 c Revised as at 31st December, 2025 Page 67
A course of conduct under subsection (2) may be the same course of conduct, or different courses of conduct pursued on each occasion in a public or a private place.
A police officer may arrest, without a warrant, anyone the police officer reasonably suspects is committing an offence under this section.
A police officer may, without a warrant, enter any premises for the purpose of giving assistance to any one present on the premises —
if the police officer has reasonable cause to suspect that a person is committing an offence under subsection (3); or
if the police officer has reasonable cause to suspect that a protection order made under the Stalking (Civil Jurisdiction) Act, 2018 [Law 26 of 2018] is being contravened.
It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this section to show that —
the person’s conduct was pursued for the purpose of preventing or detecting a crime;
the person’s conduct was pursued under an enactment or a rule of law;
the person’s conduct was pursued in order to comply with a condition or requirement imposed by another person acting under an enactment;
the person’s conduct was reasonable for the protection of that person or another person or for the protection of the first-mentioned person’s property or the property of another; or
the person had no reason to believe that there was any person within hearing or sight who was likely to be put in fear as a result of the first- mentioned person’s conduct.