New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION ACT 1988 - SECT 98

98 Contempt in the face or hearing of the Commission

A person who--

(a) having been served with a summons to attend before the Commission as a witness, fails to attend in obedience to the summons, or

(aa) having been released under section 36 (6) on condition (under section 36A (1) (a)) that the person appear and report himself or herself before the Commission, fails so to appear and report, or

(b) having been served with a summons to attend before the Commission, fails to produce any document or other thing in the person's custody or control that the person is required by the summons to produce, or

(c) being called or examined as a witness before the Commission, refuses to be sworn or to make an affirmation or refuses or otherwise fails to answer any question put to the person by a Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner, or

(d) wilfully threatens or insults--

(i) a Commissioner, an Assistant Commissioner or an officer of the Commission, or

(ii) an Australian legal practitioner appointed to assist the Commission as counsel, or

(iii) any witness or person summoned to attend before the Commission, or

(iv) an Australian legal practitioner or other person authorised to appear before the Commission,

in proceedings before the Commission, or

(e) misbehaves himself or herself before the Commission, or

(f) interrupts or obstructs any proceedings before the Commission,