Payment and Settlement Systems (Oversight) Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · Oversight Powers Over Designated Payment Systems
31. Interpretation of sections 31, 32 and 33
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
In this section and sections 32 and 33, unless the context otherwise requires —
“business” includes affairs, property, right, obligation and liability;
“Court” means the High Court or a Judge thereof;
“debenture” has the same meaning as in the Schedule of the Securities
Markets Order, 2013 (S 59/2013);
“property” includes property, right and power of every description;
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“Registrar of Companies” means the Registrar of Companies appointed under the Companies Act (Chapter 39) and includes any
Deputy or Assistant Registrar of Companies appointed under that Act;
“transferee” means a person who is carrying on, or who intends to carry on, in Brunei Darussalam the usual business of an operator or a settlement institution of a designated payment system, to which the whole or any part of a transferor’s business is, is to be or is proposed to be, transferred under section 32(1);
operator
“operator”, in relation to a payment system, means a person who operates the payment system;
“transferor” means an operator or a settlement institution of a designated payment system the whole or any part of the business of which is, is to be, or is proposed to be, transferred under section 32(1).
settlement institution
“settlement institution” means a person who provides facilities for — (a) the participants of a payment system to hold funds; and (b) the settling of transactions between the participants;
Terms defined in s 2
designated payment system
Defined · s 2“designated payment system” means a payment system that is designated by the Authority under section 7 to be a designated payment system for the purposes of this Act;
operator
Defined · s 2“operator”, in relation to a payment system, means a person who operates the payment system;
settlement institution
Defined · s 2“settlement institution” means a person who provides facilities for — (a) the participants of a payment system to hold funds; and (b) the settling of transactions between the participants;
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