Section 2 Definitions - Contempt of Courts Act 1971

Definitions- Section 2 of Contempt of Courts Act 1971

Definitions are defined under section 2 of Contempt of Courts Act 1971. Provisions under this Section is :

Section 2 of Contempt of Courts Act 1971 "Notice in case of suits for anything done in pursuance of act"

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-

(a) "contempt of court" means civil contempt or criminal contempt;

(b) "civil contempt" means willful disobedience to any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or willful breach of an undertaking given to a court;

(c) "criminal contempt" means the publication (whether by words, spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise) of any matter or the doing of any other act whatsoever which-

(i) scandalizes, or tends to scandalize, or lowers or tends to lower the authority of, any court; or

(ii) prejudices, or interferes or tends to interfere with, the due course of any judicial proceeding; or

(iii) interferes or tends to interfere with, or obstructs or tends to obstruct, the administration of justice in any other manner;

(d) "High Court" means the High Court for a State or a Union territory, and includes the court of the Judicial Commissioner in any Union territory.