Section 241 — Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992: Intimidation or annoyance by violence or otherwise.

Intimidation or annoyance by violence or otherwise. 241 1 A person commits an offence who, with a view to compelling another person to abstain from doing or to do any act which that person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority—

a uses violence to or intimidates that person or his spouse or civil partner or children, or injures his property, b persistently follows that person about from place to place, c hides any tools, clothes or other property owned or used by that person, or deprives him of or hinders him in the use thereof, d watches or besets the house or other place where that person resides, works, carries on business or happens to be, or the approach to any such house or place, or e follows that person with two or more other persons in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road.

2 A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or both. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .