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195: Non-attendance or refusal to co-operate
or “You could get in trouble if you don't show up or help when the Employment Court asks you to”
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“This law explains how rules about respecting the court apply to special work courts and meetings.”

Some parts of the Contempt of Court Act 2019 apply to the Employment Court and the Employment Relations Authority. These parts include rules about how to behave in court and what happens if you don’t follow the rules.

When these rules are used for the Employment Court, they work a bit differently. The Employment Court is treated like a regular court, the Employment Court judges are treated like other judges, and the people who work for the Employment Court are treated like other court workers.

For the Employment Relations Authority, the rules also change a bit. The Authority is treated like a judge, and disrupting their meetings or not following their orders is treated the same as disrupting a court. This includes disrupting investigation meetings held by the Authority.

These rules help make sure that both the Employment Court and the Employment Relations Authority can do their jobs properly without people causing problems or ignoring what they say.

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Part 10 Institutions
Employment Court

196Application 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 Employment Court and the Employment Relations Authority.

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

  3. references to a court include the Employment Court; and
    1. references to a Judge or judicial officer include a Judge of the Employment Court; and
      1. references to an officer of the court include an officer of the Employment Court.

        1. Those provisions apply to proceedings of the Employment Relations Authority as if—

        2. references to a judicial officer include the Employment Relations Authority; and
          1. references to disrupting the proceedings of a court or disobeying any order or direction of the court made in the course of the hearing of any proceedings include disruption of the proceedings of the Authority and disobedience of any order or direction of the Authority given in the course of the hearing of any proceedings; and
            1. a disruption of the proceedings of the Authority includes the disruption of an investigation meeting held by the Authority.

              Notes
              • Section 196: replaced, on , by section 29 of the Contempt of Court Act 2019 (2019 No 44).