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Contempts of the Lawful Authority of Public Servants
Threatening injury to someone to induce them to refrain from lawfully seeking official protection against harm is punished with up to 1 year's imprisonment, fine, or both.
This criminalises intimidating a victim specifically to stop them from seeking legitimate official protection - directly relevant to cases where a wrongdoer threatens a victim to prevent them from going to the police.
This is directly relevant to intimidation tactics used against scam or fraud victims - threatening a victim specifically to stop them from seeking police protection or filing a complaint is a distinct, separately punishable offence under this section.