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Sports Tribunal Act 2006

Sports Tribunal of New Zealand - Jurisdiction and procedure

46: Contempt of Tribunal

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"Disrespecting the Sports Tribunal can get you in trouble and fined up to $1,000"

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If you threaten, intimidate, or insult the Sports Tribunal of New Zealand or its members, you can get in trouble. You can be fined up to $1,000 if you do this during a Tribunal meeting, or while going to or from one. You can also get in trouble if you interrupt the Tribunal's proceedings or misbehave while it is sitting.

If you disobey an order from a Tribunal member without a good reason, you can be fined too. The Tribunal member can ask you to leave the meeting if they think you are behaving badly. A police officer can help make sure you leave if you are asked to.

You must follow the rules when you are dealing with the Sports Tribunal of New Zealand, or you might face consequences, as stated in the Criminal Procedure Act 2011.

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Part 3Sports Tribunal of New Zealand
Jurisdiction and procedure

46Contempt of Tribunal

  1. Every person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 who—

  2. threatens, intimidates, or intentionally insults the Tribunal or any member of it or any special adviser to or officer of the Tribunal, during a sitting of the Tribunal, or in going to, or returning from, any sitting; or
    1. intentionally interrupts the proceedings of the Tribunal or otherwise misbehaves while the Tribunal is sitting; or
      1. intentionally and without lawful excuse disobeys an order or direction of a member of the Tribunal in the course of any proceedings before the Tribunal.

        1. A member of the Tribunal may order the exclusion from a sitting of the Tribunal of any person whose behaviour, in that member’s opinion, constitutes an offence against subsection (1), whether or not that person is charged with the offence; and any member of the police may take the steps reasonably necessary to enforce that exclusion.

        Notes
        • Section 46(1): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).