21Contempt

21 Contempt

21 Contempt

(1) A person shall not commit contempt in the face of the Court.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units or imprisonment for 14 days.

(2) Proceedings for contempt shall be dealt with summarily before the Children’s Court.

(3) For the purpose of dealing with proceedings for contempt by a person in respect of whom the Children’s Court would not, but for this subsection, have jurisdiction, the Children’s Court—

(a) shall have, and may exercise, the jurisdiction of the Local Court, and

(b) shall not have, and may not exercise, the jurisdiction of the Children’s Court,

as regards that person.

s 21: Am 1991 No 71, Sch 1; 2007 No 94, Sch 2.