Emergency Regulations Act · s 2

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s 2Proclamation of emergency

(1)

Whenever it appears to His Majesty the Sultan and Yang

Di-Pertuan in Council that —

(a)

an occasion of emergency or public danger has arisen; or

(b)

any action has been taken or is immediately threatened by any persons, or body of persons, of such a nature and on so extensive a scale as to be calculated by interfering with the supply and distribution of food, water, fuel or light, or with the means of locomotion, to deprive the community, or any substantial portion of the community, of the essentials of life, he may, by proclamation (in this Act referred to as a proclamation of emergency), declare that a state of emergency exists either in the whole of

Brunei Darussalam or in such part of Brunei Darussalam as may be specified in the proclamation.

(2)

No proclamation of emergency shall be in force for more than 2 years, without prejudice, however, to the issue of another such proclamation at or before the end of that period.