91. When commissioned officer may disperse unlawful assembly by military force

When the public security is manifestly endangered by any such assembly, and when neither a Magistrate nor a police officer empowered by section 90 to require such an assembly to be dispersed by military force can be communicated with, any commissioned officer of the Royal Brunei a

Armed Forces or of any armed forces lawfully serving within Brunei

Darussalam may disperse such assembly by military force and may arrest and confine any person forming part of it in order to disperse such assembly or that they may be punished according to law; but if while he is acting under this section it becomes practicable for him to communicate with any

Magistrate or gazetted police officer, he shall do so and shall obey the instructions of such Magistrate or police officer as to whether he shall or shall not continue such action.

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