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    "content": "(1) Subject to the provisions of any other law, the Court Court. shall have power to punish for contempt. (2) A person who, in the face of the Court— (a) assaults, threatens, intimidates, or insults a magistrate, court administrator, judicial officer, or a witness, during a sitting or attendance in Court, or in going to or returning from the Court; (b) interrupts or obstructs the proceedings of the Court; or (c) without lawful excuse disobeys an order or direction of the Court in the course of the hearing of a proceeding, commits an offence. (3) In the case of civil proceedings, the willful disobedience of any judgment, decree, direction, order, or other process of a court or willful breach of an undertaking given to a court constitutes contempt of court. (4) In the case of criminal proceedings, the publication, whether by words, spoken or written, by signs, visible representation, or otherwise, of any matters or the doing of any other act which— (a) scandalizes or tends to scandalize, or lowers or tends to lower the judicial authority or dignity of the court (b) prejudices, or interferes or tends to interfere with, the due course of any judicial proceeding; or (c) interferes or tends to interfere with, or obstructs or 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 The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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