Contempt of Courts Act, 1976
Contempt of Court Act, 1976 was enacted to regulate the exercise of the powers of courts to punish for contempt of court. Article 204 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan provides that the exercise of the power conferred on courts to punish for contempt may be regulated by law. The purpose of this act is to punish whoever disobeys or disregards any order, direction or process of a Court, which he is legally bound to obey; or commits a willful breach of a valid undertaking given to a Court; or does anything which is intended to or tends to bring the authority of a Court or the administration of law into disrespect or disrepute, or to interfere with or obstruct or interrupt or prejudice the process of law or the due course of any judicial proceedings, or to lower the authority of a Court or sc andalize a Judge in relation to his office, or to disturb the order or decorum of a Court. The law is repealed.
