National Defence Act

Marginal note:Definition of tribunal

• 118 (1) For the purposes of this section and section 119, tribunal includes a court martial, a military judge, an officer conducting a summary hearing, the Grievances Committee, the Military Judges Inquiry Committee, the Military Police Complaints Commission, a board of inquiry, a commissioner taking evidence under this Act and any inquiry committee established under regulations.

• Marginal note:Contempt

  (2) Every person who

  • (a) being duly summoned or ordered to attend as a witness before a tribunal, fails to attend or to remain in attendance,

  • (b) refuses to take an oath or make a solemn affirmation lawfully required by a tribunal to be taken or made,

  • (c) refuses to produce any document in the power or control of, and lawfully required by a tribunal to be produced by, that person,

  • (d) refuses when a witness to answer any question to which a tribunal may lawfully require an answer,

  • (e) uses insulting or threatening language before, or causes any interruption or disturbance in the proceedings of, a tribunal, or

  • (f) commits any other contempt of a tribunal

  is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to imprisonment for less than two years or to less punishment.