Interpretation and General Clauses Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · Powers and Appointments
20. Power to appoint includes power to dismiss
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Whenever any written law confers upon any person or authority a power to make appointments to any office or place, the power shall be construed as including a power to dismiss or suspend any person so appointed and to appoint another person temporarily in the place of any person so suspended, or in place of any sick or absent holder of such office or place:
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;
Provided that, where the power of such person or authority to make the appointment is only exercisable upon the recommendation or subject to the approval or consent of some other person or authority, the power of dismissal shall only be exercisable upon the recommendation or subject to the approval or consent of such other person or authority.
Terms defined in s 3
person
Defined · s 3“person” includes any company or association or body of persons, corporate or unincorporate; and this interpretation applies notwithstanding that the word “person” occurs in a provision creating or relating to an offence or for the recovery of any fine or compensation;
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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