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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "tends to obstruct the administration of justice, constitutes contempt of court. (5) A police officer, with or without the assistance of any other person, may, by order of a judge of the Court, take into custody and detain a person who commits an offence under subsection (2) until the rising of the Court. (6) The Court may sentence a person who commits an offence under subsection (1) to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five days, or a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand shillings, or both. (7) A person may appeal against an order of the Court made by way of punishment for contempt of court as if it were a conviction and sentence made in the exercise of the ordinary original criminal jurisdiction of the Court. (8) The Chief Justice may make Rules to regulate procedures relating to contempt of court. This is to allow the court to punish for contempt of court and harmonise the definition of “contempt of court” with the definition that is found in the other Bills already before this House that we will be discussing later on. That is the High Court Bill and the Court of Appeal (Organisation and Administration) Bill, 2015. We are seeking to align all these Bills so that there is consistency."
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