Undesirable Publications Act · 2010 Revised Edition
3. Power to prohibit importation, sale or circulation of publications
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
If the Minister* is of opinion that the importation, sale or circulation of any publication or series of publications published or printed outside Brunei Darussalam or within Brunei Darussalam by any person would be contrary to the public interest, he may in his absolute discretion, by order published in the Gazette, prohibit the importation, sale or circulation of that particular publication or series of publications or all publications published or printed by that person.
If an order under subsection (1) specifies by name a publication which is a periodical publication, such order shall, unless a contrary intention be expressed therein, have effect with respect to —
publication
“publication” means any of the following other than a film — (a) any book, magazine or periodical, whether in manuscript or final form; (b) any sound recording; (c) any picture or drawing, whether made by computer-graphics or otherwise howsoever; (d) any photograph, photographic negative, photographic plate or photographic slide; or (e) any paper, model, sculpture, tape, disc, article or thing — (i) that has printed or impressed upon it any word, statement, sign or representation; or (ii) on which is recorded or stored for immediate or future retrieval any information that, by the use of any computer or other electronic device, is capable of being reproduced or shown as any picture, photograph, word, statement, sign or representation, and includes a copy of any publication;
all past and subsequent issues of such publication; and
any publication published or printed under any other name if the publishing or printing thereof is in any respect a continuation of, or in substitution for, the publishing or printing of the publication named in the order.
If an order made under subsection (1) prohibits the importation, sale or circulation of all publications published or printed by a specified person such order shall, unless a contrary intention is expressed therein, have effect not only with respect to all publications published or printed by that person before the date of the order but also with respect to all publications so published or printed on or after such date.
An order made under subsection (1) shall, unless a contrary intention is expressed therein, apply to any translation into any language whatsoever of the publication specified in the order.
*Transferred from the Mentri Besar to the Minister of Home Affairs with effect from 1st January 1984 — [S 10/84]
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The Minister* may at any time revoke, vary or amend any order made under this section.
Terms defined in s 2
periodical publication
Defined · s 2“periodical publication” includes every publication issued periodically or in parts or numbers at intervals whether regular or irregular;
publication
Defined · s 2“publication” means any of the following other than a film — (a) any book, magazine or periodical, whether in manuscript or final form; (b) any sound recording; (c) any picture or drawing, whether made by computer-graphics or otherwise howsoever; (d) any photograph, photographic negative, photographic plate or photographic slide; or (e) any paper, model, sculpture, tape, disc, article or thing — (i) that has printed or impressed upon it any word, statement, sign or representation; or (ii) on which is recorded or stored for immediate or future retrieval any information that, by the use of any computer or other electronic device, is capable of being reproduced or shown as any picture, photograph, word, statement, sign or representation, and includes a copy of any publication;