Section 51
Contempt of tribunal
(1)
Any person who —
(a)
assaults, wilfully insults or obstructs an adjudicator or any witness or officer of a tribunal during a sitting of a tribunal or while an adjudicator, witness or officer is on his way to or from such a sitting;
(b)
assaults or wilfully insults or obstructs any person in attendance at a sitting of the tribunal;
(c)
wilfully interrupts or otherwise misbehaves at a sitting of the tribunal; or
(d)
without lawful excuse disobeys any order or direction of a tribunal (not being an order referred to in section 38) during a sitting of the tribunal, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000
or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months.
(2)
For the avoidance of doubt, section 32 of the Supreme Court Act
(Chapter 5) applies in the case of any exercise by the adjudicator of his power under subsection (1).
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