Proclamation under Article 55(1): Proclamation Dissolution of the Legislative Council Proclamation under Article 55(1)

No. S 46 12th. AUGUST, 2004

THE CONSTITUTION OF BRUNEI DARUSSALAM

PROCLAMATION

DISSOLUTION OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

(Section 55(1))

In the name of GOD, the Compassionate, the Merciful, PRAISE to be GOD, the Lord of the Universe, and may the benediction and peace of GOD be upon

Our Leader Muhammad and upon all his Relations and Friends.

BY THE GRACE

OF GOD, WE,

SULTAN

HASSANAL

BOLKIAH

MU'IZZADDIN WADDAULAH IBN! DULl YANG TERAMAT MULIA PADUKA

SERI BEGAWAN SULTAN HAJI SIR MUDA OMAR 'ALI•'SAIFUDDIEN SA'ADUL

KHAIRI WADDIEN, SOVEREIGN AND CHIEF OF THE FAMILY ORDER OF

THE CROWN OF BRUNEI, SOVEREIGN AND CHIEF OF THE MOST

ESTEEMED FAMILY ORDER, SOVEREIGN AND CHIEF OF THE MOST

EMINENT ORDER OF ISLAM OF BRUNEI, SOVEREIGN AND CHIEF OF THE

MOST ILLUSTRIOUS ORDER OF LAlLA JASA KEBERANIAN GEMILANG,

SOVEREIGN AND CHIEF OF THE MOST EXALTED ORDER OF KEBERANIAN

LAlLA TERBILANG, SOVEREIGN AND CHIEF OF THE MOST GALLANT

ORDER OF PAHLAWAN NEGARA BRUNEI, SOVEREIGN AND CHIEF OF THE

MOST BLESSED, ORDER OF SETIA NEGARA BRUNEI, SOVEREIGN AND

CHIEF OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF PADUKA SERI LAlLA

JASA, SOVEREIGN AND CHIEF OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF

THE CROWN OF BRUNEI, SOVEREIGN AND CHIEF OF THE MOST

FAITHFUL ORDER OF PERWIRA AGONG NEGARA BRUNEI, HONORARY

KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF SAINT

MICHAEL AND SAINT GEORGE, MOST ESTEEMED FAMILY ORDER (FIRST

CLASS) KELANTAN, MOST ESTEEMED FAMILY ORDER [FIRST CLASS)

JOHORE, MOST ESTEEMED FAMILY ORDER (FIRST CLASS)

NEGERI

SEMBILAN Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of the State and Territory of Brunei

Darussalam and all its Dependencies.

1951

HIS MAJESTY THE SULTAN

AND YANG DI-PERTUAN

BRUNEI DARUSSALAM GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

WHEREAS by subsection ( 1) of section 55 of the Constitution of Brunei

Darussalam, it is provided that His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan may at any time, by Proclamation published in the Gazette, dissolve the Legislative

Council;

AND WHEREAS by subsection (2) of section 55 of the Constitution of Brunei

Darussalam, it is provided that His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan shall dissolve the Legislative Council at the expiration of five years from the date when it first meets after it is reconstituted;

AND WHEREAS the Legislative Council now in being first met on the 1\venty-first day of December One thousand nine hundred and eighty-three;

NOW, THEREFORE, WE in exercise of the powers conferred on US by the

Constitution of Brunei Darussalam, do hereby PROCLAIM that the Legislative

Council of Brunei Darussalam be dissolved as from the thirteenth day of

February, One thousand nine hundred and eighty-four corresponding to the

Hijrah of the Prophet (on Whom be the benediction and peace of GOD) the eleventh day of Jamadilawal, One thousand four hundred and four.

Made this 13th. day of February, One thousand nine hundred and eighty-four, corresponding to the Hijrah of the Prophet (on Whom be the benediction and peace of GOD) the 11th. day of Jamadilawal, One thousand four hundred and four.

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