Section 282 — Resource Management Act 1991: Power to commit for contempt

282 Power to commit for contempt (1) If any person— (a) Wilfully insults, assaults, threatens, or intimidates the Environment Court or any member of it or any special advisor to or officer of the Environment Court, during a sitting of the Environment Court, or in going to or returning from any sitting; or (b) Wilfully interrupts the proceedings of the Environment Court or otherwise misbehaves while the Environment Court is sitting; or (c) Wilfully and without lawful excuse disobeys an order or direction of a member of the Environment Court in the course of any proceedings before the Environment Court— any officer of the Environment Court, with or without the assistance of any member of the Police or other person, may, in accordance with an order given by a member of the Environment Court, take the person into custody and detain him or her for a period expiring not later than 1 hour following the rising of the Environment Court, and an Environment Judge, may, if he or she thinks fit, by warrant under his or her hand, commit the person to prison for any period not exceeding 10 days or impose a fine not exceeding $1,500. (2) A warrant under subsection (1) may be filed in any District Court and shall then be enforceable as an order made by that Court. The words “ Environment Court ” in subsection (1) were substituted, as from 2 September 1996, for the words “ Planning Tribunal ” pursuant to section 6(2)(a) Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160). The words “ Environment Judge ” in subsection (1) were substituted, as from 2 September 1996, for the words “ Planning Judge ” pursuant to section 6(2)(b) Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).