Penal Code · s 141

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141.
Unlawful assembly
An assembly of five or more persons is designated an ''unlawfd assembly" if the common object of the persons composing that assembly 1s -
(a) to overawe, by criminal force or show of criminal force, the Government of Brunei Darussalam or any public servant in the exercise of the lawful power of such public servant;
(b) to resist the execution of any law or of any legal process;
(c) to commit any mischief, criminal trespass or other offence;
(4 by means of criminal force, or show of criminal force to any person, to take or obtain possession of any property, or to deprive any person of the enjoyment of a right of way, or of the use of water or other incorporeal right of which he is in possession or enjoyment, or to enforce any right or supposed right; or
(e) by means of criminal force. or show of criminal force, to compel any person to do what he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do what he is legally entitled to do.
Explanation -
An assembly which was not unlawful when it assembled may subsequently become an unlawful assembly.

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s 141Unlawful assembly

An assembly of five or more persons is designated an ''unlawfd assembly" if the common object of the persons composing that assembly 1s -

(a)

to overawe, by criminal force or show of criminal force, the Government of Brunei Darussalam or any public servant in the exercise of the lawful power of such public servant;

(b)

to resist the execution of any law or of any legal process;

(c)

to commit any mischief, criminal trespass or other offence;

(4 by means of criminal force, or show of criminal force to any person, to take or obtain possession of any property, or to deprive any person of the enjoyment of a right of way, or of the use of water or other incorporeal right of which he is in possession or enjoyment, or to enforce any right or supposed right; or

(e)

by means of criminal force. or show of criminal force, to compel any person to do what he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do what he is legally entitled to do.

Explanation -

An assembly which was not unlawful when it assembled may subsequently become an unlawful assembly.