MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 139
MINING ACT 1978 - SECT 139
139 . Contempt of court
(1) Where a person in
or during the course of any proceedings in a warden’s court insults or
threatens the warden or any officer of the court, or interrupts or obstructs
the proceedings of the court, or in any other manner is guilty of any contempt
in the face of the court, the warden may direct any officer of the court, or
any police officer to take such person into custody and to detain him until
the rising of the court or until further order.
(2) At any time before
the rising of the court the warden may direct such person to be brought before
the court, and may impose upon him a fine not exceeding $1 000 or a sentence
of imprisonment not exceeding 14 days or both the fine and the imprisonment.
(3) When a person
fails to pay any fine imposed under subsection (2) the warden may order that
person to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding 14 days.
(4) At any time before
or after the making of any order under this section, the warden may accept an
apology from the offender and may discharge the order, if any, previously made
and release the offender.
[Section 139 amended: No. 22 of 1990 s. 38.]