(a) abuses, interferes with or obstructs the process of the Court in any way or disobeys any
order or direction of , the Court;
(b) scandalizes the Court otherwise does anything which tends to bring the court or a person
constituting the Court into hatred, ridicule or contempt;
(c) does anything which tends to prejudice the determination of a matter pending or most
likely to come up before the Court;
(d) does anything which, by any other law, constitutes contempt of court.
Explanation. In this section, Court means Antiterrorism Court].
38. Punishment for terrorist act committed before this Act. Where a person has committed an
offence before the commencement of this Act which if committed after the date on which this Act
comes into force would constitute a terrorist act hereunder he shall be tried under this Act but shall be
liable to punishment as authorized by law at the time the offence was committed.
39. Indemnity. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against any person in
respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act.
1[39A. Repeal. (1) The Antiterrorism (Amendment) Ordinance, 1999 (IV of 1999), is hereby
repealed.
(2) All cases, including cased before a court of appeals, which were pending under the Pakistan
Armed Forces (Acting in Aid of Civil Power) Ordinance, 1998, shall stand transferred to the Anti
terrorism Court having jurisdiction under the Act and such court shall,
(a) in cases which have been transferred from a trial court, continue the trial from the stage
which the cases had reached; and
(b) in cases which have been transferred from a court of appeals decide the same on the basis
of the evidence earlier recorded after hearing the parties.
(3) Any judgment given or sentence passed by a trial court or a court of appeals conveyed under
section 3 of the Pakistan Armed Forces (Acting in Aid of Civil Power) Ordinance, 1998 (XII of
1998), except cases in which sentence of death was passed and has been executed, shall have no
effect and all such cases shall stand transferred to the Antiterrorism Court having jurisdiction under
this Act for decision after hearing the parties on the basis of the evidence earlier recorded.
(4) In respect of a case transferred to a court by virtue of subsection (2) or subsection (3), the
court shall not, by reason of the said transfer, be bound to recall and rehear any witness who has
given evidence before the transfer and may act on the evidence already recorded by or produced
before the court from which the case is so transferred.
1 Ins. by the Antiterrorism (Amdt.) Ordinance, 2001 (39 of 200I),ss. I5 & 16
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