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COMMERCIAL AND CONSUMER TRIBUNAL ACT 2003 - SECT 86

86 Contempt of tribunal

(1) A person is in contempt of the tribunal if the person--

(a) insults a member or a member of the staff of the registry at a proceeding, or in going to or returning from the proceeding; or
(b) deliberately interrupts a proceeding, or otherwise misbehaves at a proceeding; or
(c) creates or continues, or joins in creating or continuing, a disturbance in or near a place where a proceeding is being conducted; or
(d) obstructs or assaults a person attending a proceeding; or
(e) without lawful excuse, disobeys a lawful order or direction of the tribunal made or given at a proceeding; or
(f) obstructs a member, or a person authorised under section 83(1), in the exercise of a power under section 83(1); or
(g) does anything at a proceeding or otherwise that would be contempt of court if the tribunal were a court of record.

(2) The tribunal may order that a person who is in contempt under subsection (1) at a proceeding be excluded from the place where the proceeding is being conducted.

(3) A member of the staff of the registry, acting under the tribunal's order, may, using necessary and reasonable help and force, exclude the person from the place.

(4) In this section--

member includes presiding case manager.



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