Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person is in contempt of the ombudsman if, in an investigation, the person--
(a) insults or threatens--
(i) the ombudsman; or
(ii) a person who gives or is to give information or a document to the ombudsman; or
(iii) a lawyer or other person helping a person who gives or is to give information or a document to the ombudsman; or
(b) deliberately interrupts the ombudsman or otherwise behaves in a disruptive way before the ombudsman; or
(c) creates or continues, or joins in creating or continuing, a disturbance in or near the place where the ombudsman is performing a function under this Act; or
(d) obstructs or assaults a person who attends, or is to attend, before the ombudsman; or
(e) by writing or speech uses false and defamatory words about the ombudsman; or
(f) does anything, whether before the ombudsman or otherwise, that would be a contempt of court if the ombudsman were a judge acting judicially; or
(g) publishes, or permits or allows to be published, information given to the ombudsman, or any contents of a document produced to the ombudsman, if the ombudsman has ordered that the information or contents must not be published.
(2) In this section--
ombudsman includes an officer of the ombudsman.