Section 43A

Any person having by law or consent of parties authority to receive evidence, and any person in charge of a public office, except a police officer, before whom any instrument, chargeable in his opinion with duty, is produced or comes in the performance of his functions shall, if it appears to him that such instrument is not duly stamped, impound the same.

For the purpose of subsection (1), any such person shall examine every instrument so chargeable and so produced or coming before him in order to ascertain whether it is stamped with a stamp of the value and description required by any written law in force in Brunei Darussalam when such instrument was executed or first executed.

Nothing in this section is deemed to require any Magistrate or

In the case of a Judge of the Supreme Court, the duty of examining and impounding any instrument under this section shall be performed by the Registrar or Deputy Registrar of that Court.