Western Australian Current Acts

CORRUPTION, CRIME AND MISCONDUCT ACT 2003 - SECT 162

162 .         Other contempts of Commission

        (1A)         In this section —

        examination includes an examination conducted by the Commission under the Criminal Property Confiscation Act 2000 .

        (1)         A person who —

            (a)         insults the Commission while the Commission is conducting an examination; or

            (b)         deliberately interrupts an examination conducted by the Commission; or

            (c)         at an examination conducted by the Commission, contravenes a provision of this Act relating to the examination; or

            (d)         creates or continues or joins in creating or continuing, a disturbance in or near a place where the Commission is conducting an examination; or

            (e)         does anything else at an examination conducted by the Commission or otherwise that would be contempt of court if the Commission were a judge acting judicially,

                is in contempt of the Commission.

        (2)         The Commission may order that a person who under subsection (1) is in contempt of the Commission at an examination be excluded from the place where the examination is being conducted.

        (3)         An officer of the Commission, acting under the Commission’s order, may, using necessary and reasonable help and force, exclude the person from the place.

        [Section 162 inserted: No. 78 of 2003 s. 22; amended: No. 10 of 2018 s. 20.]