LOCAL COURTS ACT 1904 - SECT 156

This legislation has been repealed.

LOCAL COURTS ACT 1904 - SECT 156

156 .         Power of committal for contempt

                If any person wilfully insults, interferes with, or obstructs a magistrate, or a clerk, bailiff, or other officer of a Local Court, or any party to a cause or matter, or any witness lawfully summoned to attend a Local Court, during his sitting or attendance in court, or in going to or returning from the court, or wilfully interrupts the proceedings of the court, or otherwise misbehaves himself in court, a bailiff or other officer may, with or without the assistance of any other person, by order of the magistrate, take the offender into custody and detain him till the rising of the court; and the magistrate may, by a warrant under his hand, and sealed with the seal of the court, commit the offender to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or may impose on the offender a fine not exceeding $5 000, or may so commit the offender and impose such a fine, or may in default of immediate payment of the fine imposed commit the offender to imprisonment —

            (a)         until the fine is paid; or

            (b)         for a term not exceeding 12 months,

                whichever may be the shorter period.

        [Section 156 amended by No. 113 of 1965 s.8; No. 71 of 1986 s.7.]