Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00842:section:6o
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00842
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 6O
Character Range: 43628–44786

6O  Contempt of Royal Commission
 (1) Any person who intentionally insults or disturbs a Royal Commission, or interrupts the proceedings of a Royal Commission, or uses any insulting language towards a Royal Commission, or by writing or speech uses words false and defamatory of a Royal Commission, or is in any manner guilty of any intentional contempt of a Royal Commission, commits an offence.
Penalty: 2 penalty units or imprisonment for three months.
 (2) If the President or Chair of a Royal Commission or the sole Commissioner is a Justice of the High Court, or a Judge of any other Federal Court, of the Supreme Court of a Territory or of the Supreme Court or County Court or District Court of a State, he or she shall, in relation to any offence against subsection (1) of this section committed in the face of the Commission, have all the powers of a Justice of the High Court sitting in open Court in relation to a contempt committed in face of the Court, except that any punishment inflicted shall not exceed the punishment provided by subsection (1) of this section.

Part 4—Private sessions for certain Royal Commissions

Division 1—Preliminary