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Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

Regulation of immigration advisers - Offences

70C: Contempt of Tribunal

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“You must behave properly at the Tribunal or face punishment”

If you misbehave at the Tribunal, you could be breaking the law. This includes insulting or getting in the way of the Tribunal, its members, witnesses, or officers. It’s also against the law to insult anyone attending the Tribunal, interrupt the proceedings, or disobey the Tribunal’s orders. If you do any of these things on purpose, you might have to pay a fine of up to $1,000. The Tribunal can also make you leave if they think you’re misbehaving, even if you haven’t been charged with an offence. Officers or police can remove you if necessary.

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Part 1 Regulation of immigration advisers
Offences

70CContempt of Tribunal

  1. A person commits an offence if the person—

  2. wilfully insults or obstructs the Tribunal or any member of it, a witness, or an officer of the Tribunal during a sitting of the Tribunal or while a member, a witness, or an officer is going to, or returning from, a sitting of the Tribunal; or
    1. wilfully insults or obstructs any person in attendance at a sitting of the Tribunal; or
      1. wilfully interrupts, or otherwise misbehaves, at a sitting of the Tribunal; or
        1. wilfully and without lawful excuse disobeys any order or direction of the Tribunal in the course of the hearing of any proceedings.

          1. A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.

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

          Notes
          • Section 70C: inserted, on , by section 112 of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).