200. Power of certain officers to take affidavits and declarations

An officer of a rank not below that of Major (in this section referred to as an authorised officer) may, at a place abroad, take affidavits and declarations from persons subject to military law.

A declaration taken pursuant to subsection (1) from any of such persons by an authorised officer, if taken as nearly as circumstances permit in the manner provided by the Statutory Declarations Act (Chapter 12), is deemed for the purposes of that Act, to have been made and taken in Brunei

A document purporting to have subscribed thereto the signature of an authorised officer in testimony of an affidavit or declaration being taken before him in pursuance of this section and containing in the jurat or attestation a statement of the date on which and the place at which the affidavit or declaration was taken and of the full name and rank of that officer shall be admitted in evidence without proof of the signature being the signature of that officer or of the facts so stated.