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CONTEMPT OF COURTS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2006

THE CONTEMPT OF COURTS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2006
NO. 6 OF 2006
[17th March, 2006.]
An Act further to amend the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-seventh Year of the
Republic of India as follows:-
1.
Short title.
1. Short title.-This
Act may be called the Contempt of Courts
(Amendment) Act, 2006.
2.
Substitution of new section for section 13.
2. Substitution of new section for section 13.-In the Contempt of
Courts Act, 1971 (70 of 1971), for section 13, the following section
shall be substituted, namely:-
"13. Contempts not punishable in certain cases.-Notwithstanding
anything contained in any law for the time being in force,-
(a) no court shall impose a sentence under this Act for a contempt of
court unless it is satisfied that the contempt is of such a nature
that it substantially interferes, or tends substantially to interfere
with the due course of justice;
(b) the court may permit, in any proceeding for contempt of court,
justification by truth as a valid
defence if it is satisfied that it
is in public interest and the request for invoking the said defence
is bona fide.''.
T. K. VISWANATHAN,
Secy. to the Govt. of India.
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