3. Seditious intention

(1)

A seditious intention is an intention —

(a)

to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan or the

Government;

(b)

to excite the inhabitants of Brunei Darussalam to attempt to procure the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any other matter in Brunei Darussalam as by law established;

(c)

to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the administration of justice in Brunei Darussalam;

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(d)

to raise discontent or disaffection amongst the inhabitants of

Brunei Darussalam;

(e)

to promote feelings of ill-will, hostility or hatred between different classes of the population of Brunei Darussalam;

(f)

to question, or to directly or indirectly lower or adversely affect, or otherwise bring into derogation, the rights, status, position, discretion, powers, privileges, sovereignty or prerogatives of His

Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan or Her Majesty Duli Raja

Isteri, as the case may be; or

(g)

to directly or indirectly lower or adversely affect the standing or prominence of the National Philosophy of Melayu Islam Beraja

(known in English as Malay Islamic Monarchy), but an act, speech or publication is not seditious by reason only that it intends —

(i)

to show that His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan or the Government has been misled or mistaken in any of their measures;

(ii)

to point out errors or defects in the Government or the

Constitution of Brunei Darussalam as by law established or in legislation or in the administration of justice with a view to the remedying of such errors or defects;

(iii)

to persuade the inhabitants of Brunei Darussalam to attempt to procure by lawful means the alteration of any matter in Brunei Darussalam as by law established; or

(iv)

to point out, with a view to their removal, any matters which are producing or have a tendency to produce feelings of ill-will and enmity between different classes of the population of Brunei Darussalam.

(2)

In determining whether the intention with which any act was done, any words were spoken, or any document was published, was or was

Sedition not seditious, every person shall be deemed to intend the consequences which would naturally follow from his conduct at the time and in the circumstances in which he so conducted himself.

Seditious offences [S 22/2018]

Read on from s 4

3. Seditious intention

Terms defined in s 2