New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 355D

355D Proceedings for contempt of Commission

(1) If it is alleged, or appears to the Commission on its own view, that a person is guilty of contempt of the Commission, the Commission may refer the matter to the Supreme Court for determination.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), conduct is contempt only if the same conduct in relation to the Supreme Court would be a contempt of the Supreme Court.

(3) The Supreme Court is to dispose of any matter referred to it under this section in the manner it considers appropriate.

(4) Conduct may be punished as a contempt of the Commission even though it could be punished as an offence against section 180.

(5) However, a person is not liable to be punished twice if the person's conduct constitutes both an offence against section 180 and a contempt of the Commission.