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ORDINANCE IV OF 1999 ORDINANCE IV OF 1999 ANTI-TERRORISM (AMENDMENT), ORDINANCE, 1999 An Ordinance to amend the Anti-Terrorism, Act, 1997 [Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part I, 27th April, 1999] No.F.2(1)/99-Pub., dated 27-4-1999.--The following Ordinance made b~ the President is hereby published for general information: 17. Substitution of section 37, Act XXVII of 1997.--In the said Act, for section 37, the following shall be substituted, namely:-- "37. Contempt of Court.--An Anti-Terrorism Court shall have the power to punish with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months and with fine any person who-- (a) Abuses, interferes with or obstructs the process of the Court in any way or disobeys any order or direction of the Court; (b) scandalizes the Court otherwise does anything which tends to bring the Court or a person constituting the Court into hatred, ridicule or contempt; (c) does anything which tends to prejudice the determination of a matter pending or most likely to come up before the Court; or (d) does anything which, by any other law, constitutes contempt of Court. Explanation.--In this section, "Court" means "Anti-Terrorism Court."