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Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1971

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) "contempt of court" means civil contempt or criminal contempt; (b) "civil contempt" means wilful disobedience to any judgement, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or wilful breach of an undertaking given to a court; (c) criminal contempt" means the publication (whether by words, spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation,or otherwise) of any matter or the doing of any other act whatsoever which-- (i) scandalises, or tends to scandalise, or lowers or tends to lower the authority of, any court; or (ii) prejudices, or interferes or tends to interfere with, the due course of any judicial proceeding; or (iii) interferes or tends to interfere with, or obstructs or tends to obstruct, the administration of justice in any other manner; (d) "High Court" means the High Court for a State or a Union territory, and includes the court of the Judicial Commissioner in any Union territory.

Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1971

..... RULE 02: DEFINITIONS -In these Rules unless there is anything repugnant to the subject context: - (a) 'Act' means the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (Act 70 of 1971) ; (b) 'Code' means the Code of Criminal Procedure; (c) 'Form' means the form set out in the appendix to these rules ; (d) 'Member' means a Member, whether 'Judicial' or Administrative' and includes Vice Chairman and Chairman; (e) 'Registrar' means Registrar of the Central Adminsitrative Tribunal or its Benches where the contempt proceedings are taken and shall include Joint Registrar and Deputy Registrar, and the Section Officer authorised to discharge the functions of the Registrar; (f) 'Section' means a section of the Act; (g) 'Tribunal ' means the Central Administrative Tribunal constituted under the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 or the Bench thereof, where the proceedings are taken congnizance of; (h) Words and expressions not defined in these rules shall have the same meaning as defined in the Act. RULE 03: FORM OF MOTION -Every motion for initiating action for contempt of the Tribunal shall be in the form of a petition described as 'Contempt Petition (Civil)' in respect of Civil.....