New Zealand Acts

TRANS-TASMAN PROCEEDINGS ACT 2010 - SECT 92

92 Contempt of Federal Court of Australia

1 Every person commits an offence who, at any sitting of the Federal Court in New Zealand,—

a) assaults, threatens, intimidates, or wilfully insults—

i) a Judge of that court; or

ii) a Registrar or an officer of that court; or

iii) a person appearing as a barrister or solicitor, or both, before that court; or

iv) a witness in proceedings before that court; or

b) wilfully interrupts or obstructs the proceedings; or

c) wilfully and without lawful excuse disobeys any order or direction of the court in the course of the proceedings.

2 Every person who commits an offence against this section is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to a fine not exceeding $1,000.

Note: 1908 No 89 s 56O

History: Section 92: inserted, on 1 March 2017, by section 8 of the Trans-Tasman Proceedings Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 70).