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bruneilawsby aturio
In force1984 Revised Edition
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Part 3

14. Proceedings for enlistment and attestation

(1)

Every recruiting officer shall give to every eligible person or eligible young person offering to enlist in the Armed Forces or Reserve

Regiment under this Act a notice stating the general requirements of attestation and the general conditions of the engagement to be entered into by the recruit, and directing such person to appear, either forthwith or at the time and place therein mentioned, before a Magistrate or an officer who has been appointed by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan* as an Attesting

Officer.

* Transferred from His Majesty in Council to His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan — [S 16/1986]

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(2)

Upon the appearance before a Magistrate or an Attesting Officer of an eligible person or eligible young person offering to enlist in the Armed

Forces or the Reserve Regiment, such person shall be asked whether he has been served with and understands the notice and whether he assents to be enlisted, and the Magistrate or Attesting Officer shall not proceed with the enlistment of such person if he considers him to be under the influence of drugs or liquor.

(3)

If an eligible person or eligible young person offering to enlist in the Armed Forces or the Reserve Regiment does not appear before a

Magistrate or an Attesting Officer at the time and place mentioned in the notice given to him, or on appearing does not assent to be enlisted, no further proceedings shall be taken.

(4)

If an eligible person or eligible young person offering to enlist in the Armed Forces or the Reserve Regiment assent to be enlisted —

(a)

the Magistrate or Attesting Officer, as the case may be, after cautioning such person that if he makes any false answer to the questions read to him, he will be liable to be punished as provided by this Act —

(i)

shall read or cause to be read to him the questions set forth in the prescribed attestation paper;

(ii)

shall satisfy himself that such person understands each question so read;

(iii)

after ascertaining that the answer of such person to each question has been duly recorded in the appropriate column of the attestation paper, shall require him to make and sign the declaration as to the truth of the answers recorded therein; and

(iv)

shall then administer the prescribed oath of service as set out in the attestation paper;

(b)

upon signing the declaration and taking the oath, such person is deemed to be enlisted as a soldier of the Armed Forces or a man of the Reserve Regiment, as the case may be;

(c)

the Magistrate or Attesting Officer, as the case may be, shall attest by his signature in the manner required by the attestation

Royal Brunei Armed Forces paper, the fulfilment of the requirements as to attesting a recruit, and shall deliver the attestation paper to the recruiting officer;

(d)

the officer who finally approves of a recruit for service shall at his request furnish him with a certificate copy of the attestation paper.

(5)

The date on which the recruit signs the declaration and takes the oath in this section in that behalf mentioned is deemed to be the date of attestation of such recruit.

(6)

The competent authority, if satisfied that there is an error in the attestation paper of a recruit, may cause the recruit to attend before a

Magistrate or an Attesting Officer, and that Magistrate or Attesting Officer, as the case may be, if satisfied that such error exists, and that the error is not so material as to render it just that the recruit should be discharged, may amend the error in the attestation paper, and the paper so amended is thereupon deemed valid as if the matter of the amendment had formed part of the original matter of such paper.

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