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Resource Management Act 1991

Environment Court - Procedure and powers

282: Application of Contempt of Court Act 2019

You could also call this:

“This explains how rules about behaving properly in court also apply to the Environment Court.”

The Contempt of Court Act 2019 applies to the Environment Court with some changes. This means that certain parts of that Act work for the Environment Court too.

When you’re thinking about how the Contempt of Court Act 2019 applies to the Environment Court, you need to change a few words in your mind:

When the Act says “court”, it means the Environment Court. When it talks about a “Judge”, it means an Environment Judge or an Alternate Environment Judge. If it mentions a “judicial officer”, that includes Environment Commissioners and Deputy Environment Commissioners. And when it refers to an “officer of the court”, that means an officer of the Environment Court.

These rules help make sure that the Contempt of Court Act 2019 can work properly for the Environment Court, even though it wasn’t originally written just for that court.

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Part 11 Environment Court
Procedure and powers

282Application of Contempt of Court Act 2019

  1. Subparts 2 and 4 of Part 2 and sections 25 and 26(1) and (2) of the Contempt of Court Act 2019 apply with the necessary modifications to proceedings of the Environment Court.

  2. Those provisions apply to proceedings of the Environment Court as if—

  3. references to a court include the Environment Court; and
    1. references to a Judge include an Environment Judge and an Alternate Environment Judge; and
      1. references to a judicial officer include an Environment Commissioner and a Deputy Environment Commissioner; and
        1. references to an officer of the court include an officer of the Environment Court.

          Notes
          • Section 282: replaced, on , by section 29 of the Contempt of Court Act 2019 (2019 No 44).