35. Instrument executed out of Brunei Darussalam

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• bill of exchange

  bill of exchange

  Defined · s 2

  “bill of exchange” includes draft, order and letter of credit, and any document or writing (except a bank note or cheque) entitling or purporting to entitle any person, whether named therein or not, to payment by any other person of, or to draw upon any other person for, any sum of money; and the expression “bill of exchange payable on demand” includes — (a) an order for the payment of any sum of money by a bill of exchange or promissory note, or for the delivery of any bill of exchange or promissory note in satisfaction of any sum of money, or for the payment of any sum of money out of any particular fund which may or may not be available, or upon any condition or contingency which may or may not be performed or happen; and (b) an order for the payment of any sum of money weekly, monthly, or at any other stated periods, and also an order for the payment by any person at any time after the date thereof of any sum of money, and sent or delivered by the person making the same to the person by whom the payment is to be made, and not to the person to whom the payment is to be made, or to any person on his behalf;

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• chargeable

  chargeable

  Defined · s 2

  “chargeable” means, as applied to an instrument executed or first executed after the commencement of this Act, chargeable under this Act, and as applied to any other instrument chargeable under the law in force in Brunei Darussalam when such instrument was executed or, when several persons executed the instrument at different times, first executed;

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• cheque

  cheque

  Defined · s 2

  “cheque” means a bill of exchange drawn on a specified banker and not expressed to be payable otherwise than on demand;

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• Collector

  Collector

  Defined · s 2

  “Collector” means any officer whom His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan may by public notification appoint in that behalf by name or in virtue of his office;

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• duty

  duty

  Defined · s 2

  “duty” means any stamp duty for the time being chargeable by law;

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• impressed stamp

  impressed stamp

  Defined · s 2

  “impressed stamp” means a stamp impressed by means of a die over an adhesive label by the proper officer or an impression made by the proper officer by any mechanical means indicating the payment of duty and the date of such impression;

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• instrument

  instrument

  Defined · s 2

  “instrument” includes every document by which any right or liability is or purports to be created, transferred, limited, extended, extinguished or recorded;

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• promissory note

  promissory note

  Defined · s 2

  “promissory note” includes any document or writing (except a bank note) containing a promise to pay any sum of money; a note promising the payment of any sum of money out of any particular fund which may or may not be available or upon any condition or contingency which may or may not be performed or happen is to be deemed a promissory note for that sum of money;

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