Contempt of court
139 Contempt of court
Where a person in or during the course of any proceedings in a warden’s court insults or threatens the warden or any officer of the court, or interrupts or obstructs the proceedings of the court, or in any other manner is guilty of any contempt in the face of the court, the warden may direct any officer of the court, or any police officer to take such person into custody and to detain him until the rising of the court or until further order.
At any time before the rising of the court the warden may direct such person to be brought before the court, and may impose upon him a fine not exceeding $1 000 or a sentence of imprisonment not exceeding 14 days or both the fine and the imprisonment.
When a person fails to pay any fine imposed under subsection (2) the warden may order that person to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding 14 days.
At any time before or after the making of any order under this section, the warden may accept an apology from the offender and may discharge the order, if any, previously made and release the offender.
[Section 139 amended: No. 22 of 1990 s. 38.]
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