Subsidiary Legislation · As enacted
Air Navigation (Births, Deaths and Missing Persons on Aircraft) Regulations, 2001
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
s 1These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Births, Deaths and
Missing Persons on Aircraft) Regulations, 2001.
Interpretation.
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s 2In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -
"aircraft" means an aircraft registered in the register of Brunei Darussalam aircraft maintained by the Director;
"Director" means the Director of Civil Aviation;
"journey", in relation to a traveller, is deemed to have commenced when he entered an aircraft for the purpose of the journey and to continue until he alights therefrom on the completion of the journey, notwithstanding any intermediate stop;
"missing person" means a person with respect to whom there are reasonable grounds for believing that he has died in consequence of an accident to an aircraft;
"person in command" of an aircraft means, in a case where a person other than the pilot is in command, that person, and in any other case, the pilot;
"traveller" includes a member of the crew.
Returns relating to births and deaths by owners of aircraft.
The owner of an aircraft shall, as soon as practicable but not later than 14
days after the occurrence in any part of the world of a birth or death in the aircraft, or of a death outside Brunei Darussalam of a traveller on the aircraft who died on the journey in consequence of an accident, transmit to the Director a return of such birth or death in the form, and containing the particulars,
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(in the case of a death):
Provided that if any such particulars are not known to the owner of the aircraft and cannot be readily ascertained by him, he shall transmit so many of them as he has been able to ascertain.
The person in command of an aircraft shall forthwith on the occurrence in any part of the world of a birth or death in the aircraft, or of the death outside
Brunei Darussalam of a traveller on the aircraft who died on the journey in consequence of an accident, record in the journey log book, or other appropriate document relating to the aircraft, the particulars referred to in sub-regulation (1)
relating to such birth or death and shall make such record available to the owner as soon as practicable:
Provided that if any such particulars are not known to the person in command of the aircraft and cannot be readily ascertained by him, he shall record and make available to the owner so many of them as he has been able to ascertain.
Where an aircraft has been demised, let or hired out for a period exceeding 14 days by the owner, and no pilot, commander, navigator or operative member of the crew of the aircraft is in the employment of the owner, these
Regulations shall have effect as if for references to the owner there were substituted references to the person to whom the aircraft was demised, let or hired out.
Records to be kept by Director.
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The Director shall keep -
{a} a separate record.of births in the form set out in the Third Schedule in which he shall record the particulars reported to him of any birth in any part of the world in an aircraft;
{b) a separate record of deaths in the form set out in the Fourth Schedule in which he shall record the particulars reported to him of any death in any part of the world in an aircraft, and of deaths outside Brunei Darussalam of any traveller on an aircraft who died on the journey in consequence of an accident to an aircraft; and
{c) a separate record in the form set out in the Fifth Schedule of any person reported to him as a missing person.
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Transmission of copies of entries to Registrar of Births and Deaths.
The Director shall within 7 days of the completion of an entry in any record kept under these Regulations transmit a certified copy of such entry to the
Registrar of Births and Deaths.
The Registrar of Births and Deaths shall file and preserve in a book called the Air Register Book of Births and Deaths to be kept by him for that purpose any certified copy of an entry transmitted to him under sub-regulation (1).
Rectification of entries of births, deaths and missing persons.
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( 1) If the Director is satisfied that there is an error or omission in an entry made in the records of births, deaths or missing persons kept under these
Regulations, he shall, in accordance with evidence of the true facts relating to the entry, rectify it in such manner as he may consider appropriate.
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Within 7 days after the rectification of any such entry or omission, the
Director shall transmit a certified copy of such rectified entry to the Registrar of
Births and Deaths.
The Registrar of Births and Deaths shall file and preserve in the Air
Register Book of Births and Deaths any certified copy of a rectified entry transmitted to him under sub-regulation (2).
Air Register Book.
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The Births and Deaths Registration Act (Chapter 79) shall have effect as if the
Air Register Book of Births and Deaths were a registration book furnished in accordance with subsection ( 1) of section 4 of that Act.
Offence.
s 8(1}
Any person who fails to comply with any requirement of these
Regulations is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding
$5,000.
Where an offence under these Regulations committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of that body, or of a person purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, is also guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
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Stillborn children.
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Nothing in these Regulations applies to a stillborn child.