Section 3 of The Protection Against Domestic Violence Act CAP. 151: Meaning of domestic violence.
In this Act, "violence" means—
(a) abuse that includes—
(i) child marriage;
(ii) female genital mutilation;
(iii) forced marriage;
(iv) forced wife inheritance;
(v) interference from in-laws;
(vi) sexual violence within marriage;
(vii) virginity testing; and
(viii) widow cleansing;
(ix) depriving the applicant of or hindering the applicant from access to or a reasonable share of the facilities associated with the applicant's place of residence;
(b) damage to property;
(c) defilement;
(d) economic abuse;
(e) emotional or psychological abuse;
(f) forcible entry into the applicant's residence where the parties do not share the same residence;
(g) harassment;
(h) incest;
(i) intimidation
(j) physical abuse;
(k) sexual abuse;
(l) stalking;
(m) verbal abuse; or
(n) any other conduct against a person, where such conduct harms or may cause imminent harm to the safety, health, or well-being of the person.
(2) "Domestic violence", in relation to any person, means violence against that person, or threat of violence or of imminent danger to that person, by any other person with whom that person is, or has been, in a domestic relationship.
(3) Despite subsection (1)(f), a person psychologically abuses a child if that person—
(a) causes or allows the child to see or hear the physical, sexual, or psychological abuse of a person with whom the child has a domestic relationship; or
(b) puts the child or allows the child to be put at risk of seeing or hearing the physical, sexual, or psychological abuse of a person with whom the child has a domestic relationship, but the person who suffers the abuse shall not be regarded as having caused or allowed the child to see or hear the abuse or as having put the child, or allowed the child to be put, at risk of seeing or hearing the abuse.
(4) Despite subsection (1)—
(a) a single act may amount to abuse; and
(b) a number of acts that form part of a pattern of behaviour may amount to abuse, even when some or all of those acts, when considered in isolation, may appear to be minor or trivial.
(5) Behaviour may be psychological abuse for the purposes of subsection (1) even if it does not involve actual or threatened physical or sexual abuse.
(6) Conduct constituting domestic violence does not by that reason alone cease to constitute an offence under any other law and any such conduct may, despite this Act, be dealt with in accordance with any other law.
(a) abuse that includes—
(i) child marriage;
(ii) female genital mutilation;
(iii) forced marriage;
(iv) forced wife inheritance;
(v) interference from in-laws;
(vi) sexual violence within marriage;
(vii) virginity testing; and
(viii) widow cleansing;
(ix) depriving the applicant of or hindering the applicant from access to or a reasonable share of the facilities associated with the applicant's place of residence;
(b) damage to property;
(c) defilement;
(d) economic abuse;
(e) emotional or psychological abuse;
(f) forcible entry into the applicant's residence where the parties do not share the same residence;
(g) harassment;
(h) incest;
(i) intimidation
(j) physical abuse;
(k) sexual abuse;
(l) stalking;
(m) verbal abuse; or
(n) any other conduct against a person, where such conduct harms or may cause imminent harm to the safety, health, or well-being of the person.
(2) "Domestic violence", in relation to any person, means violence against that person, or threat of violence or of imminent danger to that person, by any other person with whom that person is, or has been, in a domestic relationship.
(3) Despite subsection (1)(f), a person psychologically abuses a child if that person—
(a) causes or allows the child to see or hear the physical, sexual, or psychological abuse of a person with whom the child has a domestic relationship; or
(b) puts the child or allows the child to be put at risk of seeing or hearing the physical, sexual, or psychological abuse of a person with whom the child has a domestic relationship, but the person who suffers the abuse shall not be regarded as having caused or allowed the child to see or hear the abuse or as having put the child, or allowed the child to be put, at risk of seeing or hearing the abuse.
(4) Despite subsection (1)—
(a) a single act may amount to abuse; and
(b) a number of acts that form part of a pattern of behaviour may amount to abuse, even when some or all of those acts, when considered in isolation, may appear to be minor or trivial.
(5) Behaviour may be psychological abuse for the purposes of subsection (1) even if it does not involve actual or threatened physical or sexual abuse.
(6) Conduct constituting domestic violence does not by that reason alone cease to constitute an offence under any other law and any such conduct may, despite this Act, be dealt with in accordance with any other law.
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