Contempt of Courts Act, 1971

Stub article on the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971. A full encyclopedic entry is pending.

What this article will cover

A full salary-calculator article on the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (Act No. 70 of 1971) will cover the distinction between civil and criminal contempt, the limitation period for initiating proceedings, the punishment available, and its use by a central government employee to enforce an unimplemented order of the Central Administrative Tribunal through Section 17 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, which applies the 1971 Act to the Tribunal with the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General or an Additional Solicitor-General substituted for the Advocate-General, with internal links to neighbouring topics on salary-calculator.in and a references section pointing to primary sources.