Criminals Registration Act · 2014 Revised Edition · Part II · Registration of Criminals
5A. Interpretation of this Part
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires —
“commencement date” means the date of commencement of this
Part;
“crime-free period” means a period referred to in section 5C(4);
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“excluded offence” means any offence included in the Schedule that is not capable of being treated as spent under this Part;
“place of detention” means any place (by whatsoever name so called) appointed or directed as such under any written law;
“place of safety” means any place (by whatsoever name so called)
declared or established as such under any written law;
“probation order” means any order of a court made under any written law to place an offender on probation;
“record of conviction”, in relation to a person, means the record of his conviction which is kept in the register before, on or after the commencement date for —
register
“register” means the register of criminals kept in accordance with section 3;
any offence committed in Brunei Darussalam; or
any offence committed outside Brunei Darussalam and registrable under this Act, and the registrable particulars related thereto;
“term of imprisonment” does not include a term of imprisonment imposed by a court in default of payment of a fine or penalty;
“unlawfully at large” refers to any person who has escaped from lawful arrest, a prison, a place of detention, a place of safety or any other place of confinement for persons deemed as such under any written law.
Terms defined in s 2
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;
Part III
Taking of Finger Impressions, Photographs and Particulars
Part IV