Interpretation and General Clauses Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · Subsidiary Legislation and Instruments
18. Exercise of statutory powers between enactment and commencement of written law
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Whenever any written law which is not to commence immediately on the passing thereof confers power to —
written law
“written law” includes all Acts, Proclamation and subsidiary legislation, or any part thereof, but does not include any Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom or any Order of Her Britannic Majesty in Council, or any law which no authority in Brunei Darussalam is empowered to amend;
make subsidiary legislation;
subsidiary legislation
“subsidiary legislation” means any regulation, order, Proclamation or other instrument made under any written law and having legislative effect;
issue any instrument;
instrument
“instrument” includes any publication in the Gazette, whether or not such publication merely purports to publish the doing of an act or the occurrence of a fact or event, or otherwise conveys or purports to convey information;
prescribe forms; or
do any other thing, for the purposes of that written law, the power may be exercised at any time after the passing of the written law so far as may be necessary or expedient for the purpose of bringing the written law into operation at the date of the commencement thereof:
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Provided that nothing contained in this section is deemed to authorise any provision to bring into effect any such subsidiary legislation, instrument, form or thing prior to the commencement of the written law conferring power to make, issue, prescribe or do the same; and, if no date is specified as from which any such subsidiary legislation, instrument, form or thing shall have effect, it shall have effect as from the commencement of such written law.
commencement
“commencement”, used with reference to any written law, means the date upon which such written law comes into operation;
Terms defined in s 3
commencement
Defined · s 3“commencement”, used with reference to any written law, means the date upon which such written law comes into operation;
instrument
Defined · s 3“instrument” includes any publication in the Gazette, whether or not such publication merely purports to publish the doing of an act or the occurrence of a fact or event, or otherwise conveys or purports to convey information;
subsidiary legislation
Defined · s 3“subsidiary legislation” means any regulation, order, Proclamation or other instrument made under any written law and having legislative effect;
written law
Defined · s 3“written law” includes all Acts, Proclamation and subsidiary legislation, or any part thereof, but does not include any Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom or any Order of Her Britannic Majesty in Council, or any law which no authority in Brunei Darussalam is empowered to amend;
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