Hazardous Waste (Control of Export, Import and Transit) Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part · Preliminary
6. Transit proposals
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
This section sets out the proposals that are transit proposals for the purposes of this Act.
A proposal —
to bring hazardous or other waste into Brunei Darussalam for the purpose of being carried to a foreign country either by the same or another conveyance; and
if the waste is brought into Brunei Darussalam by sea or air, the carriage is on a through bill of lading or through airway bill, is a transit proposal so long as it is not proposed to dispose of the waste in
Brunei Darussalam.
In this section, “through bill of lading” or “through airway bill”
means a bill of lading or airway bill, as the case may be, for the consignment of goods from a place outside Brunei Darussalam to a final destination outside Brunei Darussalam without a consignee in Brunei Darussalam.
Terms defined in s 2
foreign country
Defined · s 2“foreign country” includes — (a) a colony, overseas territory, overseas province or protectorate of a foreign country; (b) a territory outside Brunei Darussalam, where a foreign country is to any extent responsible for the international relations of the territory; and (c) a territory outside Brunei Darussalam that is to some extent self-governing, but that is not recognised as an independent sovereign state by Brunei Darussalam;
transit proposal
Defined · s 2“transit proposal” has the meaning given to it by section 6; Hazardous Waste (Control of Export, Import and Transit)
waste
Defined · s 2“waste” means a substance or object that is — (a) proposed to be disposed of; (b) disposed of; or (c) required by any written law to be disposed of.
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