When you read other laws that talk about contempt of court, you need to understand what they mean. If another law mentions a court's power to punish someone for contempt of court, it is talking about the power to punish under the Contempt of Court Act 2019. This means you should replace the words in the other law with the words from the Contempt of Court Act 2019, unless the context is clearly different.
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Unless the context otherwise requires, references in any other Act to the power of a court to punish a person for contempt of court or to proceedings for contempt of court must be read as references to the power to punish for contempt of court, or to proceedings, under this Act.
