(1) A person (A) commits an offence if -
(a) A repeatedly or continuously engages in behaviour towards another person (B) that is controlling or coercive,
(b) at the time of the behaviour, A and B are personally connected (see subsection (6)),
(c) the behaviour has a serious effect on B, and
(d) A knows or ought to know that the behaviour will have a serious effect on B.
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(3) But A does not commit an offence under this section if at the time of the behaviour in question -
(a) A has responsibility for B, for the purposes of Part 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (see section 17 of that Act), and
(b) B is under 16.
(4) A's behaviour has a "serious effect" on B if -
(a) it causes B to fear, on at least two occasions, that violence will be used against B, or
(b) it causes B serious alarm or distress which has a substantial adverse effect on B's usual day-to-day activities.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (1)(d) A "ought to know" that which a reasonable person in
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