Section 29B
Harassment or intimidation, etc. of borrower
Any moneylender who, either personally or by any person acting on his behalf, harasses or intimidates a borrower or any member of the borrower’s family or any other person connected with the borrower at, or watches or besets, the residence or place of business or employment of the borrower, or any place at which the borrower receives his wages or any other sum periodically due to him, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty thousand ringgit but not more than two hundred and fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both, and in the case of a second or subsequent offence shall also be liable to whipping in addition to such punishment.
(2)
Any person who, acting on behalf of the moneylender, commits or attempts to commit any of the acts specified in subsection (1), shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand ringgit but not more than fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.
(3)
Any person who, while committing, or attempting to commit any offence under subsection (1) or (2), causes hurt to a person, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and whipping.
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(4)
For the purposes of subsection (1), the doing of an act of harassment or intimidation upon another person includes the making of statements, sounds or gestures, or exhibiting of any object intending that such word or sound shall be heard or that such gesture or object shall be seen by such person or intruding upon the privacy of such person.
(5)
For the purposes of this section and subsection 10I(3)—
(a)
“causes hurt” means doing any act with the intention of thereby causing hurt to any person, or with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause hurt to any person, and does thereby cause hurt to any person;
(b)
“harassment”
includes aggravation, annoyance, badgering, bedevilment, bother, hassle, irritation, molestation, nuisance, persecution, pestering, torment, trouble or vexation in circumstances in which a reasonable person, having regard to all or any of the circumstances would be offended, humiliated or intimidated; and
(c)
“intimidation” shall have the meaning as assigned to
“criminal intimidation” in section 503 of the Penal
Code.