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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-scotland-act-2018/section-10",
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  "legislation": "asp/2018/5",
  "legislation_title": "Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-scotland-act-2018",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Meaning of references to behaviour",
  "text": "(1) Subsections (2) to (4) explain what is meant by the references to behaviour in this Part.\n(2) Behaviour is behaviour of any kind, including (for example)—\n(a) saying or otherwise communicating something as well as doing something,\n(b) intentionally failing—\n(i) to do something,\n(ii) to say or otherwise communicate something.\n(3) Behaviour directed at a person is such behaviour however carried out, including (in particular)—\n(a) by way of conduct towards property,\n(b) through making use of a third party,\nas well as behaviour in a personal or direct manner.\n(4) A course of behaviour involves behaviour on at least two occasions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 10 in force at 1.4.2019 by S.S.I. 2018/387, reg. 2 (with reg. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/5/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:16.258972+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}