Immigration Act · s 20

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20.
Prohibition on disembarking from vessels or flying boats without permission of Immigration Officer
(1) It shall be the duty of the master, owner, charterer or agent of every vessel or flying boat which arrives in Brunei Darussalam to prevent any person on board other than a person specified in section 19(1)(a), (b), (c)
or (d) from disembarking from such vessel or flying boat until such disembarkation has been authorised by a Senior Immigration Officer, and for such purpose any means reasonably necessary may be used.

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(2) When any person disembarks from any vessel or flying boat before such disembarkation has been authorised by a Senior Immigration
Officer, such person, the master, owner, charterer or agent of such vessel or flying boat shall each be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $4,000 and imprisonment for one year and —
(a) it shall be no defence to a prosecution under this section that the master, owner, charterer or agent did not permit or do anything to facilitate the disembarkation of any such person; and
(b) it shall be a good defence to a prosecution under this section that the master, owner, charterer or agent took every reasonable precaution to prevent the disembarkation of any such person.
(3) The master of the vessel or flying boat from which any person has disembarked before such disembarkation has been authorised by a Senior
Immigration Officer shall be bound to re-embark such person and any master refusing to re-embark such person is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $4,000 and imprisonment for one year.

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s 20Prohibition on disembarking from vessels or flying boats without permission of Immigration Officer

(1)

It shall be the duty of the master, owner, charterer or agent of every vessel or flying boat which arrives in Brunei Darussalam to prevent any person on board other than a person specified in section 19(1)(a), (b), (c)

or (d) from disembarking from such vessel or flying boat until such disembarkation has been authorised by a Senior Immigration Officer, and for such purpose any means reasonably necessary may be used.

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(2)

When any person disembarks from any vessel or flying boat before such disembarkation has been authorised by a Senior Immigration

Officer, such person, the master, owner, charterer or agent of such vessel or flying boat shall each be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $4,000 and imprisonment for one year and —

(a)

it shall be no defence to a prosecution under this section that the master, owner, charterer or agent did not permit or do anything to facilitate the disembarkation of any such person; and

(b)

it shall be a good defence to a prosecution under this section that the master, owner, charterer or agent took every reasonable precaution to prevent the disembarkation of any such person.

(3)

The master of the vessel or flying boat from which any person has disembarked before such disembarkation has been authorised by a Senior

Immigration Officer shall be bound to re-embark such person and any master refusing to re-embark such person is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $4,000 and imprisonment for one year.