Order · As enacted
Fingerprints Enactments 1956
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
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This Enactment may be cited as the Adopted Laws Short title and
(Publication in the Gazette) Enactment, 1956, and shall come commencement.
into operation on the 1st day of March, 1956.
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If it has been or shall be provided by any Enactment Application.
that-any law shall with such formal alterations and amend-ments as may be necessary to make the same applicable within the State have effect within the State in the same manner as if it had been expressly enacted by the Sultan in Council the provisions of this Enactment shall apply.
Whenever section 2 applies the Legal Adviser Publication of may with the approval of the Sultan cause such law to be Adopted Laws printed and published with such formal alterations and with necessary d
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amendments by amen ments as m
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by which in his opinion reference may conveniently be made to such law.
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Publication under subsection (1)
shall be effected either by printing in the Gazette or in a Supplement thereof or by Notification by the Resident in the Gazette that publica
tion pursuant to subsection (1)
has been effected, specifying how publication has been effected.
s 4Without prejudice to any amendment thereto which Laws so publish᪽d
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shall be authentic may subsequently lawfully be made thereto, any law published edition thereof.
in pursuance of section 3 shall in all Courts of Justice be the sole authentic edition of such law in the State and may be cited by any short title allocated under section 3.
s 5Section 2 shall apply also when it is provided in an Application w᪽en
Enactment of the nature referred to in section 2 that such law law ';ldopted with
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specified shall be applicable subject to specified modifications in addi-modifications.
tion to the formal alterations and amendments aforesaid save that in such case section 3 shall not be deemed to authorise any variation of the specified modifications.
s 6For the purposes of this Enactment 'law' includes any De,finit,ion
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of law.
provIsIon rna e y competent aut onty many terntory out-side Brunei having the force of law in such territory or having such force prior to its repeal or amendment.
Passed this ninth day of February, 1956.
MOHAMED TAIB,
Clerk of Council.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
A number of laws of England, Malaya, Sarawak and Singapore have been applied to the State and the object of this Enactment is to enable the Legal Adviser with the approval of the Sultan to publish such laws with consequential amendments in the Brunei Gazette and thereby make them available to the public.