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Version date: 1 August 2004 - onwards

57AO. Act or omission that is both an offence and contempt.

(1) An act or omission may be punished as a contempt of the Appeals Tribunal even though it could be punished as an offence.

(2) An act or omission may be punished as an offence even though it could be punished as a contempt of the Appeals Tribunal.

(3) If an act or omission constitutes both an offence and a contempt of the Appeals Tribunal, the offender is not liable to be punished twice.