Criminals Registration Act · 2014 Revised Edition · Part V
14. Evidence
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any —
finger impression, photograph or registrable particulars recorded in the register;
record from the DNA database;
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certificate or report purporting to have been compiled from particulars recorded in the register or DNA database under this Act;
and
document purporting to be a report upon any matter or thing relating to finger impressions or DNA information duly submitted to the Registrar, shall, if produced from proper custody and authenticated by the signature of the Registrar or such other officer as may be empowered in that behalf by him, be admissible in evidence in any court, and shall be sufficient proof of the facts thereon stated or appearing unless the same is disproved.
A previous conviction in any place outside Brunei Darussalam may be proved by the production of —
a certificate purporting to be authenticated by —
the signature of a police officer in the country or territory where the conviction was had; or
the signature of a person or authority authorised in that country or territory to keep fingerprints or criminal records, containing a copy of the sentence or order and the fingerprints of the person so convicted;
either evidence that the fingerprints of the person so convicted are those of the accused person, or a certificate purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the Registrar that the fingerprints or photograph thereof of the person previously convicted have been compared to the fingerprints or photograph of the accused person and they are those of one and the same person.
Any certificate issued in accordance with this section shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence of all the facts stated therein without proof that the officer purporting to sign it did in fact sign it and was empowered to do so.
Terms defined in s 2
DNA information
Defined · s 2“DNA information” means genetic information derived from the forensic DNA analysis of a body sample;
finger impression
Defined · s 2“finger impression” includes thumb impression and palm impression;
photograph
Defined · s 2“photograph”, in relation to a person, includes the photograph of any distinguishing feature or mark on his body and an eye scan;
register
Defined · s 2“register” means the register of criminals kept in accordance with section 3;
registrable particulars
Defined · s 2“registrable particulars” means — (a) particulars of any conviction, sentence, banishment, expulsion or deportation, and any name, description, photograph, or finger impression of, or any document relating to, any person so convicted, sentenced, banished, expelled or deported, as the case may be; (b) any other particulars; (c) particulars of any outstanding offence taken into consideration for the purposes of determining and passing sentence on any conviction for an offence;
Registrar
Defined · s 2“Registrar” means the Registrar of Criminals, who shall be the Commissioner of Police.