Law Enforcement Conduct Commission Act 2016

A contempt of the Commission may be punished in accordance with this section.

A Commissioner may present to the Supreme Court a certificate (in this Division called a contempt of the Commission certificate) in which the Commissioner sets out the facts that constitute the alleged contempt.

A contempt of the Commission certificate is prima facie evidence of the matters certified.

If a Commissioner presents a contempt of the Commission certificate to the Supreme Court—

the Supreme Court is required without delay to inquire into the alleged contempt, and

after hearing any witnesses who may be produced against or on behalf of the person charged with the contempt and any statement that may be offered in defence, the Supreme Court (if satisfied that the person is guilty of the contempt) may punish or take steps for the punishment of the person in the same way and to the same extent as if the person had committed that contempt in or in relation to proceedings in the Supreme Court, and

the provisions of the Supreme Court Act 1970 and the rules of court of the Supreme Court, with any necessary adaptations, apply and extend accordingly.

A contemnor is not excused from attendance on the ground that failure to attend as a witness as required by a summons (or failure to appear and report as a witness in accordance with a condition of release) has made, or might make, the contemnor liable to be punished for contempt.