After section 74 of the Principal Act , the following section is inserted in Division 1:

74A.     Contempt of Board

(1)  A person is in contempt of the Board if the person –

(a) at a hearing of the Board or in going to or returning from a hearing of the Board, insults a member of the Board, a member of the staff of the Board or a person assisting the Board; or

(b) deliberately interrupts a hearing of the Board, or otherwise misbehaves at such a hearing; or

(c) creates or continues, or joins in creating or continuing, a disturbance in or near a place where a hearing of the Board is being conducted; or

(d) obstructs or assaults a person attending a hearing of the Board; or

(e) without lawful excuse, disobeys a lawful order or direction of the Board made or given at a hearing of the Board; or

(f) does anything at a hearing of the Board or otherwise that would be contempt of court if the Board were a judge acting judicially.

(2)  The Board may order that a person who under subsection (1) is in contempt of the Board be excluded from the place where the hearing is being conducted.

(3)  A member of the staff of the Board, acting under the Board's direction, may, using necessary and reasonable help and force, exclude the person from the place.