Income Tax (Petroleum) Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · Returns
21. Power to call for returns, books etc.
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
For the purposes of obtaining full information in respect of any company’s petroleum operations, the Collector may give notice in writing to such company requiring it within the time limited by such notice, which time shall not be less than 30 days from the date of service of such notice, to complete and deliver to the Collector any return specified in such notice and in addition or alternatively requiring an authorised representative to attend personally before him and to produce for examination any books, documents, accounts and returns which the Collector may deem necessary.
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
Collector
Defined · s 2“Collector” means the Collector of Income Tax appointed under section 3 and includes for all purposes of this Act, except the powers conferred on the Collector by sections 38, 39 and 42, a Deputy Collector so appointed;
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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