Interpretation and General Clauses Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · General Provisions Regarding Acts and Other Written Laws
9. Repeal and substitution effect thereof
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Wherever any written law repeals any former written law and substitutes other provisions therefor, the written law so repealed shall remain in force until the substituted provisions come into operation.
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;
Whenever any written law is declared to be made by way of replacement of, or substitution for, another, or re-enacts another, with or without modification, the subsidiary legislation and instruments made or prescribed by or under the earlier written law shall remain in force so far as they are not inconsistent with such later written law, or any instrument made and prescribed thereunder, and are deemed for all purposes, including penalties, to have been made or prescribed thereby and to be liable to amendment thereby or thereunder.
subsidiary legislation
“subsidiary legislation” means any regulation, order, Proclamation or other instrument made under any written law and having legislative effect;
Terms defined in s 3
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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