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Constitution (Transfer of Function and Consequential Provisions) Order
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
s 1Order-
This Order may be cited as the Constitu-tion (Transfer of Functions and Consequential
Provisions) Order, 1959, and shall come into force on the same date as Part III of the Constitution.
s 2In this Order-
"Constitution" means the Constitution of the State of Brunei, 1959;
"functions" includes any powers, duties, privileges or benefits conferred or imposed by any written law on any person or authority;
"the Resident" means the British Resi-dent for the State.
s 3
( l) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the functions conferred or imposed on the person or authority specified in the first column of the First
Schedule by the provision of law specified opposite thereto in the second column of that Schedule are hereby transferred to the person or authority specified opposite thereto in the third column of that Schedule.
The Mentri Besar may, with the approval of the Sultan, delegate to the State Secre-tary, the Attorney-General or the State Financial
Officer any of the functions vested in the Mentri
Besar by virtue of paragraph ( 1 ).
References to the Clerk to the Executive
Council shall, until the commencement of Part V of the Constitution, be construed as references to the Clerk to the State Council.
s 4
The written laws specified in the first column of the Second Schedule are amended in the manner specified in the second and third columns of that Schedule.
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FIRST ScHEDUL:B
(Article 3)
TRANSFER OF STATUTORY FUNCTIONS
First Column
Person or authority from whom functions trrlnsferred
The Resident
The Resident with the approval of the Sultan in Council
The Resident
The Resident
The British Resident
Resident I Magistrate
The Resident
Second Column
Provisions of Jaw concerned
Part I