sec.11Meaning of emotional or psychological abuse

### sec.11 Meaning of emotional or psychological abuse Emotional or psychological abuse means behaviour, or a pattern of behaviour, by a person towards another person that torments, intimidates, harasses or is offensive to the other person. following a person when the person is out in public, including by vehicle or on foot remaining outside a person’s residence or place of work repeatedly contacting a person by telephone, SMS message, email or social networking site without the person’s consent repeated derogatory taunts, including racial taunts threatening to disclose a person’s sexual orientation to the person’s friends or family without the person’s consent threatening to withhold a person’s medication preventing a person from making or keeping connections with the person’s family, friends or culture, including cultural or spiritual ceremonies or practices, or preventing the person from expressing the person’s cultural identity s 11 amd 2023 No. 1 s 32 - • following a person when the person is out in public, including by vehicle or on foot - • remaining outside a person’s residence or place of work - • repeatedly contacting a person by telephone, SMS message, email or social networking site without the person’s consent - • repeated derogatory taunts, including racial taunts - • threatening to disclose a person’s sexual orientation to the person’s friends or family without the person’s consent - • threatening to withhold a person’s medication - • preventing a person from making or keeping connections with the person’s family, friends or culture, including cultural or spiritual ceremonies or practices, or preventing the person from expressing the person’s cultural identity