Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00049:section:82
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00049
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 82
Character Range: 123174–124879

82  Contempt of the NACC
  A person is in contempt of the NACC if the person:
 (a) when served with a summons to attend a hearing:
 (i) fails to attend as required by the summons; or
 (ii) fails to appear and report from day to day unless excused or released from further attendance by the Commissioner; or
 (iii) refuses or fails to take an oath or make an affirmation at the hearing; or
 (iv) refuses or fails to answer a question at the hearing that the Commissioner requires the person to answer; or
 (v) refuses or fails to give information, or produce a document or thing, as required at a hearing; or
 (b) is a legal practitioner who refuses, at a hearing, to give the Commissioner the name and address of a person in accordance with section 115 (material sought from legal practitioners); or
 (c) gives evidence or information, or produces a document, at a hearing that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or
 (d) insults, disturbs or uses insulting language towards a NACC Commissioner who is holding a hearing in the performance or exercise of the NACC Commissioner's functions or powers when the person knows that the NACC Commissioner:
 (i) holds a position as a NACC Commissioner; and
 (ii) is conducting such a hearing; or
 (f) obstructs or hinders a staff member of the NACC in the performance or exercise of the staff member's functions, powers or duties in connection with a hearing; or
 (g) disrupts a hearing; or
 (h) threatens a person present at a hearing.
Note: For protection for journalists' informants, see section 31, for international relations certificates, see section 236, and for other privileges and protections, see Division 6 of this Part.