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Persons with Disabilities Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · Offences Against Persons with Disabilities
Persons with Disabilities Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · Offences Against Persons with Disabilities
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
A person who commits aggravated abuse on a person with disabilities is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $30,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years with or without whipping not exceeding 12 strokes or both.
person with disabilities
“person with disabilities” includes a person who has long-term behavioral, communication, developmental, physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairment which in interaction with various barriers may hinder his full and effective participation in society;
For the purposes of subsection (1), “aggravated abuse on a person with disabilities” occurs when a person does any of the following —
wilfully tortures, maliciously punishes or wilfully and unlawfully confines a person with disabilities; or
knowingly or wilfully abuses a person with disabilities and in so doing causes grievous bodily harm to the person with disabilities.
In subsection (2)(a), “confine” includes caging or restraining a person with disabilities.
Persons with Disabilities
grievous bodily harm
“grievous bodily harm” has the same meaning as in the Penal Code;
person with disabilities
“person with disabilities” includes a person who has long-term behavioral, communication, developmental, physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairment which in interaction with various barriers may hinder his full and effective participation in society;
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