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Domestic violence means engaging in the following within the context of a previous or existing domestic relationship:

(a) an act under the Criminal Code 1960 (Act 29) which constitutes a threat or harm to a person under that Act;

(b) specific acts, threats to commit, or acts likely to result in

(i) physical abuse, namely physical assault or use of physical force against another person including the forcible confinement or detention of another person and the deprivation of another person of access to

adequate food, water, clothing, shelter, rest, or subjecting another person to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;

(ii) sexual abuse, namely the forceful engagement of another person in a sexual contact which includes sexual conduct that abuses, humiliates or degrades the other person or otherwise violates another person's sexual integrity or a sexual contact by a person aware of being infected with human immunodeficiency virus

(HIV) or any other sexually transmitted disease with another person without that other person being given prior information of the infection;

(iii) economic abuse, namely the deprivation or threatened deprivation of economic or financial resources which a person is entitled to by law, the disposition or threatened disposition of moveable or immovable property in which another person has a material interest and hiding or hindering the use of property or damaging or destroying property in which another person has a material interest; and

(iv) emotional, verbal or psychological abuse namely any conduct that makes another person feel constantly unhappy, miserable, humiliated, ridiculed, afraid, jittery or depressed or to feel inadequate or worthless;

(c) harassment including sexual harassment and intimidation by inducing fear in another person; and

(d) behaviour or conduct that in any way

(i) harms or may harm another person,

(ii) endangers the safety, health or well-being of another person,

(iii) undermines another person's privacy, integrity or security, or (iv) detracts or is likely to detract from another person's dignity and worth as a human being.