Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsA 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.