The Protection Against Domestic Violence Bill, 2013
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"social welfare officer" means a person registered as a
social welfare worker;
"stalking" includes pursuing or accosting a person;
" victim" means a victim of domestic violence; and
"virginity testing" is the practice and process or
examination of a female's genitals for tears of the hymen.
3. In this Act, " violence" means(a) abuse that includes(i) child marriage;
(ii) female genital mutilation;
(iii) forced marriage;
(iv) forced wife inheritance;
(v)
interference from in-laws;
(vii) sexual violence within marriage;
(viii) virginity testing; and
(ix) widow cleansing;
(b) damage to property;
(c) defilement;
(d) depriving the applicant of or hindering the
applicant from access to or a reasonable share of
the facilities associated with the applicant's place
of residence;
(e) economic abuse ;
(f) emotional or psychological abuse;
(g) forcible entry into the applicant's residence where
the parties do not share the same residence ;
(h) harassment;
(i) incest;
(j) intimidation
(k) physical abuse;
(I)
sexual abuse;
Meaning of
domestic violence.
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