3Houses empowered to punish summarily for certain contempts

### 3 Houses empowered to punish summarily for certain contempts > *\[Section 3 Amended by No. 99 of 1982, s. 3 and Sched. 2 \]*Each House is hereby empowered to punish in a summary manner, as for contempt, by imprisonment in such custody and in such place as it may direct, during the then existing session or any portion thereof, any of the offences hereinafter enumerated, whether committed by a Member of the House or by any other person: > > > > (a) The disobedience of any order of either House, or of any committee duly authorized in that behalf, to attend, or to produce papers, books, records, or other documents before the House or such committee; > > > > > (b) Refusing to be examined before or to answer any lawful and relevant question put by, the House or any such committee; > > > > > (c) The assaulting, menacing, obstructing, or insulting of any Member in his coming to or going from the House, or in the House, or on account of his behaviour in Parliament, or endeavouring to compel any Member by force, insult, or menace to declare himself in favour of or against any proposition or matter depending or expected to be brought before either House; > > > > > (d) The publishing or sending to a Member any insulting or threatening letter on account of his behaviour in Parliament; > > > > > (e) The sending a challenge to fight to a Member, on account of his behaviour in Parliament; > > > > > (f) The offering of a bribe to, or attempting to bribe, a Member; and > > > > > (g) The creating of, or joining in, any disturbance in the House, or in the immediate vicinity of the House.