Misuse of Drugs Act · 2013 Revised Edition · Part III · Evidence, Enforcement and Punishment
13. Certificate of corresponding law
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
A document purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the government of a country and purporting to state the terms of a corresponding law in force in that country shall be admitted in evidence, in any proceedings for an offence against this Act, on its production by the prosecution without further proof, and such document shall be conclusive evidence that —
corresponding law
“corresponding law” means a law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the government of a country outside Brunei Darussalam to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that country of the production, supply, use, export and import of drugs and other substances in accordance with the provisions of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs signed at New York on 30th March 1961, or a law providing for the control and regulation in that country of the production, supply, use, export and import of dangerous or otherwise harmful drugs in pursuance of any treaty, convention or other agreement or arrangement to which the government of that country and the Government of Brunei Darussalam are for the time being parties;
it is issued by or on behalf of the government of that country;
the terms of such law are as stated in the document; and
any facts stated in the document as constituting an offence under such law do constitute such offence.
Terms defined in s 2
corresponding law
Defined · s 2“corresponding law” means a law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the government of a country outside Brunei Darussalam to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that country of the production, supply, use, export and import of drugs and other substances in accordance with the provisions of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs signed at New York on 30th March 1961, or a law providing for the control and regulation in that country of the production, supply, use, export and import of dangerous or otherwise harmful drugs in pursuance of any treaty, convention or other agreement or arrangement to which the government of that country and the Government of Brunei Darussalam are for the time being parties;
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