Part 6: Offences involving violent or abusive behaviour Schedule 3: Amendments relating to offences committed outside the UK Part 1: England and Wales
Paragraph 1 inserts a new section 4B in the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 ("the 1997 Act").
	Section 4 of the 1997 Act makes it an offence for a person to pursue a course of conduct which causes another to fear, on at least two occasions, that violence will be used against him or her, and where he or she knows, or ought to know, that his or her course of conduct will cause the victim to fear violence on each occasion. Section 4A of the 1997 Act provides a similar offence in relation to stalking involving fear of violence or serious alarm or distress.
	New section 4B(1) makes it an offence in England and Wales for a person who is a UK national (as defined in new section 4B(2)) or is habitually resident in England and Wales to pursue, wholly or partly in a country outside the UK, a course of conduct that would amount to an offence under section 4 or 4A of the 1997 Act if it occurred in England and Wales.
	Paragraph 2 amends section 72 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. Section 72 already makes it an offence in England and Wales for a UK national or resident (as defined in section 72(9)) to commit certain acts in a country outside the UK. Schedule 2 to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 lists the sexual offences to which section 72 applies.
	The effect of the amendments to section 72 is to make it an offence in England and Wales for a UK national or resident to commit certain other acts in a country outside the UK. The act done must amount to an offence under any of sections 1 to 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (namely, rape, assault by penetration, sexual assault and causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent) where the victim of the offence was aged 18 or over at the time of the offence and, for a UK resident, the act must also amount to an offence in the country where it was committed. Consistent with the amendments to section 72, paragraph 2(3) amends Schedule 2 to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 so that, rather than applying to section 72 generally, it instead contains provisions applying to specific subsections of section 72.
	Paragraph 3 inserts a new section 76A in the 2015 Act. Section 76 of the 2015 Act makes it an offence for a person (A) repeatedly or continuously to engage in behaviour towards another person (B) that is controlling or coercive. The offence applies where, at the time of the behaviour, A and B are personally connected, the behaviour has a serious effect on B and A knows or ought to know that the behaviour will have a serious effect on B.
	New section 76A(1) makes it an offence in England and Wales for a person who is a UK national (as defined in new section 76A(2)) or is habitually resident in England and Wales to engage in behaviour, wholly or partly in a country outside the UK, that would amount to an offence under section 76 of the 2015 Act if it occurred in England and Wales.