Section 33: Offences

33. Offences (1) Any person who— (a) fails to comply with an order of the Court or Tribunal; (b) refuses to answer to a summons issued by the Registrar to attend a hearing of, or produce a document or other exhibit before, the Tribunal; (c) refuses, before the Tribunal, to take an oath or to give evidence; (d) gives false or misleading evidence to the Tribunal; (e) at a sitting of the Tribunal, insults a member, violently interrupts the proceedings or otherwise commits a contempt of the Tribunal; or (f) in any other manner, contravenes this Act, shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 50,000 rupees and to imprisonment. (2) A District Magistrate shall, notwithstanding any other enactment, have jurisdiction to hear proceedings for an offence under subsection (1) and to inflict the penalty specified in that subsection.