Queensland Consolidated Acts

QUEENSLAND CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2009 - SECT 218

218 Contempt of tribunal

(1) The circumstances in which a person may be in contempt of the tribunal include if the person—

(a) insults an official while the official is—

(i) sitting on or with the tribunal in a proceeding; or

(ii) attending a proceeding; or

(iii) entering or leaving the place where the tribunal is sitting; or

(b) obstructs or assaults a person attending a proceeding, compulsory conference, conciliation or mediation; or

(c) obstructs or hinders a person from complying with a decision of the tribunal, or a notice given by the tribunal or the principal registrar under section 97 ; or

Editor’s note—

Section 97 (Requiring witness to attend or produce document or thing)

(d) unreasonably interrupts a proceeding, compulsory conference, conciliation or mediation, or otherwise misbehaves at a proceeding, compulsory conference, conciliation or mediation; or

(e) creates or continues, or joins in creating or continuing, a disturbance in or near a place where the tribunal is sitting; or

(f) contravenes an undertaking the person has given to the tribunal; or

(g) commits an offence against this part.

Note—

See also section 222 (Court’s powers relating to person contravening non-publication order).

(2) A child is not in contempt under subsection (1) if the thing that would otherwise constitute contempt is done by the child in the course of, or relates in any way to, a review of a reviewable decision about the child.

(3) In this section—

"official" means—

(a) a member; or

(b) an adjudicator; or

(c) an assessor; or

(d) the principal registrar; or

(e) a registrar; or

(f) a registry staff member; or

(g) a Magistrates Court staff member.