Customs Order, 2006 · As enacted · Part XIV
145. (1) If any officer of customs -
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
fa) makes any collusive seizure or delivers up or makes any agreement to deliver up or not to seize any vessel or aircraft or other means of conveyance, or any goods liable to seizure;
vessel
"vessel" includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation;
{b) accepts, agrees to accept, or attempts to obtain, any bribe, gratuity, recompense or reward for the neglect or non-performance of his duty;
{c) conspires or connives with any person to import or export or is in any way concerned in the importation or exportation of any goods liable to customs duty or any goods prohibited to be imported or exported for the purpose of seizing any vessel, aircraft or conveyance or any goods and obtaining any reward for such seizure or otherwise;
import
"import" means to bring or cause to be brought into Brunei Darussalam by land, sea or air: Provided that goods bona {zde in transit, including goods for transhipment, shall not, for the purpose of levy of customs duties, be deemed to be imported unless they are or become uncustomed goods;
{d) conspires or connives with any person to do any act or thing whereby the customs revenue is or may be defrauded, or which is contrary to this Order or the proper execution of his duty;
knowingly demands from any person an amount in excess of the authorised customs duty;
customs duty
"customs duty" means any import duty, export duty, surtax, surcharge or cess imposed by or under this Order;
{f)
withholds for his own use or otherwise any portion of the amount of the customs duty collected;
{g)
renders a false return, whether orally or in writing, of the amount of customs duty collected or received by him;
defrauds any person, embezzles any money or otherwise uses his position to deal wrongly with customs; or
{i) not being authorised under this Order to do so, collects or attempts to collect customs duty,
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he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding
$40,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years or both, and any person who gives or offers, or promises to give or procures to be given, any bribe, gratuity, recompense or reward to, or makes any collusive agreement with, any such officer or person to induce him in any way to neglect his duty or to do, conceal or connive at any act whereby any of the provisions of this Order or of any other law relating to imports or exports may be evaded, shall be guilty as an abettor and punishable under this Order accordingly.
Any officer of customs who is found when on duty to have in his possession any money in contravention of any departmental regulations issued in writing shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have received the same in contravention of subsection (1).
officer of customs
"officer of customs" means- (a) the Controller; (b) any Deputy Controller, Assistant Controller, Senior Superintendent, Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent or Assistant Superintendent of Customs and Excise appointed under section 3; and (c) the persons authorised by section 5 to exercise the powers of senior officers of customs or of officers of customs and any person appointed by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan to act as an officer of customs;
If an officer of customs has reasonable suspicion that another officer of customs junior in rank to him has in his possession any money received in contravention of subsection (1 J, he may search such other officer.
No female officer of customs shall be searched except by another female with strict regard to decency.
Penalty for offences not otherwise provided for.
Terms defined in s 2
aircraft
Defined · s 2"aircraft" includes any kind of craft which may be used for the conveyance of passengers or goods by air;
customs duty
Defined · s 2"customs duty" means any import duty, export duty, surtax, surcharge or cess imposed by or under this Order;
export
Defined · s 2"export" means to take or cause to be taken out of Brunei Darussalam by land, sea or air or to place any goods in a vessel, conveyance or aircraft for the purpose of such goods being taken out of Brunei Darussalam by land, sea or air: Provided that goods bona tide in transit, including goods which have been transhipped, shall not, for the purpose of levy of customs duties, be deemed to be exported unless they are or become uncustomed goods;
goods
Defined · s 2"goods" includes animals, birds, fish, plants and all kinds of movable property;
import
Defined · s 2"import" means to bring or cause to be brought into Brunei Darussalam by land, sea or air: Provided that goods bona {zde in transit, including goods for transhipment, shall not, for the purpose of levy of customs duties, be deemed to be imported unless they are or become uncustomed goods;
officer of customs
Defined · s 2"officer of customs" means- (a) the Controller; (b) any Deputy Controller, Assistant Controller, Senior Superintendent, Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent or Assistant Superintendent of Customs and Excise appointed under section 3; and (c) the persons authorised by section 5 to exercise the powers of senior officers of customs or of officers of customs and any person appointed by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan to act as an officer of customs;
vessel
Defined · s 2"vessel" includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation;