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ORDINANCE IX OF 1979 ORDINANCE IX OF 1979 BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, 1979 CHAPTER XX‑ PANCHAYATS 205. Contempt of Panchayat.--‑(1) A person shall be guilty of contempt of a Panchayat if he, without lawful excuse. (a) offers any insult to the Panchayat or any member thereof while the Panchayat is functioning as such ; or (b) causes any interruption in the work of the Panchayat ; or (c) fails to produce or deliver a document when ordered by the Panchayat to do so ; or (d) refuses to answer any question of the Panchayat he is bound to answer ; or (e) refuses to take oath or to state the truth or to sign any statement made by him when required by the Panchayat to do so. (2) The Panchayat may without any complaint having been made to it; forthwith try any person for contempt and sentence him to a fine not exceed ing one hundred rupees. (3) in offences of the nature mentioned in sections 172, 173, 174 and 202 of the Pakistan Penal Code, in so far as they are committed in respect of the proceedings of a Panchayat, the Panchayat may through its Chairman lodge a complaint in writing to Magistrate in the District competent to try such offences.