Income Tax (Petroleum) Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part 5
16. Manager of company to be answerable
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The manager or any principal officer in Brunei Darussalam of every company which is or has been engaged in petroleum operations shall be answerable for doing all such acts as are required to be done by virtue of this
Brunei Darussalam
“Brunei Darussalam” includes the submarine areas beneath the territorial waters of Brunei Darussalam and the submarine areas beneath any other waters over which the Government exercises or may hereafter exercise sovereign rights in respect of minerals;
Act for the assessment and charge to tax of such company and for payment of such tax.
company
“company” means a company incorporated or registered in Brunei Darussalam under the Companies Act or under any law in force elsewhere, but does not include the company acting as a State Party in a petroleum mining Agreement in accordance with the Petroleum Mining Act;
Terms defined in s 2
Brunei Darussalam
Defined · s 2“Brunei Darussalam” includes the submarine areas beneath the territorial waters of Brunei Darussalam and the submarine areas beneath any other waters over which the Government exercises or may hereafter exercise sovereign rights in respect of minerals;
company
Defined · s 2“company” means a company incorporated or registered in Brunei Darussalam under the Companies Act or under any law in force elsewhere, but does not include the company acting as a State Party in a petroleum mining Agreement in accordance with the Petroleum Mining Act;
petroleum operations
Defined · s 2“petroleum operations” means searching for and winning or obtaining of petroleum in Brunei Darussalam by or on behalf of a company for its own account by any method or means in the course of a business carried on by a company engaged in such operations, and all operations incidental thereto, and the sale or disposal by such company or any other company carrying on business through a permanent establishment in Brunei Darussalam of petroleum so won or obtained, and includes the transportation within Brunei Darussalam by such companies of petroleum so won or obtained to any point of sale or delivery or export and any field process necessary to reduce petroleum so won or obtained to a marketable condition, but does not include — (a) any transportation of petroleum outside Brunei Darussalam; (b) any process of refining at a refinery; or (c) any dealings with products so refined;
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