Section 56:
Punishment for contempt.
Any Collector or other Officer as aforesaid conducting a sale
under this Act shall 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 two hundred Rupees, 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 or other Officer 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.