{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-harassment-act-1997/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-harassment-act-1997/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/40",
  "legislation_title": "Protection from Harassment Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-harassment-act-1997",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Offence of harassment.",
  "text": "(1) A person who pursues a course of conduct in breach of section 1(1) or (1A) is guilty of an offence.\n(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.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(1) substituted (1.7.2005) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), ss. 125(3), 178(8); S.I. 2005/1521, art. 3(1)(m)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 2(3) repealed (1.10.2002) by 2002 c. 30, s. 107, Sch. 8; S.I. 2002/2306, art. 2(g)(iii)(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/40/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:25:26.233368+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."
}