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THE AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR CONCILIATION COURTS ACT, 1986 THE AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR CONCILIATION COURTS ACT, 1986 (ACT XIV OF 1986) [Dated March 9, 1986] AN ACT to make the provisions for the establishment of conciliation courts in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. WHEREAS the Local Government Institutions have been set up and it is expedient to make provisions for the establishment of conciliation courts to enable the people .to settle certain disputes through conciliation, and for matters ancillary thereto: It is hereby enacted as follows.- 12. Contempt of Conciliation Courts.--- A person shall be guilty of contempt of a Conciliation Court if he, without lawful excuse; (a) offers any insult to the Conciliation Court or any member thereof while the Court is functioning as such; or (b) causes any interruption in the work of the Conciliation Court; or (c) fails to produce or deliver a document when ordered by the Conciliation Court to do so; or (d) refuses to answer any question. of the Conciliation Court which he is bound to answer; or (e) refuses to take oath to truth or to sign any statement made by him when required by the Conciliation Court to do so; and the Conciliation Court, may, without any complaint having been made to it forthwith try such person for such contempt and sentence him to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees.