Article 18. [Provisions to secure protection of law]
(8) No person shall be convicted of a criminal offence unless that offence is defined and the penalty is prescribed in a written law :
Provided that nothing in this clause shall prevent a court of record from punishing any person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constituting the contempt is not defined in written law and the penalty therefore is not so prescribed.
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