Section 32:
Contempt.
And it is hereby enacted, that any Collector or Officer exercising the powers of
Collector, in respect to sales, be competent to punish any contempt committed in his presence in open
Cutcherry or Office for the time being, by fine, to an extent not exceeding Co.’s Rs.200, commutable, if
not paid, to imprisonment in the civil jail for a period not exceeding one month ; and the Magistrate to
whom such an offender may be sent by a Collector as aforesaid, shall carry his sentence into effect. Provided
that an appeal from any order passed under this Section shall lie to the Revenue Commissioner, whose
decision shall be final