(3) In the case of a contempt having been committed, or alleged to have been committed, by a
company, the responsibility shall extend to the persons in the company, directly or indirectly,
responsible for the same, who shall also be liable to be punished accordingly.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any judgment, no court shall have the power to pass
any order of punishment for or in relation to any act of contempt, save and except in accordance with
subsection (1).
5. Jurisdiction.—(1) A High Court or the Supreme Court, on its own information or on
information laid before it by any person, may take cognizance of an alleged commission of contempt
of the court.
(2) The Supreme Court shall have the power to take cognizance of any contempt of itself or of
any judge of the Supreme Court alleged to have been committed anywhere and a High Court shall
have the power to take cognizance of any contempt of itself or of any judge thereof or of any other
High Court or of any judge thereof alleged to have been committed within the territorial limits of its
jurisdiction.
(3) A High Court shall exercise the same jurisdiction in respect of contempts of courts sub
ordinate to it or to any other High Court as it exercises in respect of contempts of itself.
(4) Nothing contained herein shall affect the power of any court to punish any offence of
contempt under the Pakistan Penal Code.
6. Bars to taking cognizance.—(1) No High Court shall take cognizance under this Act of a
contempt alleged to have been committed in respect of a court subordinate to it where the said
contempt is an offence punishable under the Pakistan Penal Code.
(2) No court shall take cognizance, as of a contempt of court, of any averment made before the
Supreme Judicial Council in respect of which the Supreme Judicial Council has given a finding that
the averment fulfilled the requirements of clause (vi) of the proviso to section 3.
(3) No court shall take cognizance of contempt of court arising from an averment made in due
course in appellate, revisional or review proceedings, till such proceedings have been finalized and no
further appeal, revision or review lies.
(4) No court shall take cognizance of a contempt of court arising from an averment made before
the Chief Justice of a High Court, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, the Supreme Judicial Council, the
Federal Government or a Provincial Government—
(a) until the petition to which the averment relates has been finally disposed of; or
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