Words starting with A

aerodrome

Defined in Civil Aviation Act, s 2

“means a defined area on land or water to be used wholly or in part, for the take-off, landing or movement of aircraft, and includes buildings installations and equipment in the area defined by the Minister, as well as, for the purposes of …”

aerodrome authorities

Defined in Civil Aviation Act, s 2

“means a person or enterprise owning or managing a duly licenced aerodrome”

aeroplane

Defined in Civil Aviation Act, s 2

“means an engine-driven fixed-wing aircraft heavier than air that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its wings”

affected individual

Defined in Personal Data Protection Order, 2025, s 25

“means any individual to whom any personal data affected by a data breach relates”

affidavit

Defined in Bankruptcy Act, s 2

“includes statutory declaration, affirmation and attestation on honour”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

affiliation order

Defined in Maintenance Orders Reciprocal Enforcement Act, s 2

“means an order (however described) adjudging, finding or declaring a person to be the father of a child, whether or not it also provides for maintenance of the child”

after-acquired property

Defined in Secured Transactions Act, s 3

“means personal property that is acquired by a debtor after the security agreement is made”

age

Defined in Education Act, s 2

“means the age attained by the pupil on the first day of the first month of the school year in question”

Agency

Defined in Brunei Investment Agency Act, s 2

“means the Brunei Investment Agency established under section 3”

agent

Defined in Prevention of Corruption Act, s 2

“means any person employed by or acting for another, and includes a trustee, administrator and executor, and a person serving under any public body, and for the purposes of section 26 includes a sub-contractor and any person employed by or …”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

aggravated prison offence

Defined in Prisons Act, s 2

“mean any offence committed by a prisoner against prison discipline and so specified in the rules made under this Act”

agreement

Defined in Asian Development Bank Act, s 2

“means the Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank done at Manila on the 4th December 1965, which entered into force on the 22nd August 1966”

Also defined in 6 other Acts

AIDS

Defined in Infectious Diseases Act, s 2

“means Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome”

air carrier

Defined in Civil Aviation Act, s 2

“means an enterprise, being a citizen, engaged, directly or indirectly, in the carriage by air of persons, property and postal items or any of them for remuneration or hire”

air navigation service

Defined in Civil Aviation Act, s 2

“includes flight information service, alerting service, air traffic advisory service, air traffic control service, area control service, approach control service or aerodrome control service”

air receiver

Defined in Workplace Safety and Health Act, s 4

“means — (a) any vessel (other than a pipe or coil or an accessory, a fitting or part of a compressor) for containing compressed air and connected with an air compressing plant; (b) any fixed vessel for containing compressed air and used …”

air service

Defined in Civil Aviation Act, s 2

“means the undertaking made by an air carrier or air transport enterprise to carry persons, property and postal items or any of them for remuneration or hire”

air transport enterprise

Defined in Civil Aviation Act, s 2

“means an enterprise engaged in or offering to engage in scheduled or non-scheduled public transport by air”

aircraft

Defined in Civil Aviation Act, s 2

“means a machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air other than the reactions of the air against the earth’s surface”

Also defined in 7 other Acts

aircraft material

Defined in Royal Brunei Armed Forces Act, s 2

“includes — (a) parts of, and components of or accessories for, aircraft, whether for the time being in aircraft or not; (b) engines, armaments, ammunitions and bombs and other missiles of any description in, or for use in, aircraft; (c) …”

aircraft operator

Defined in Civil Aviation Act, s 2

“means a person, organisation or enterprise engaged in or offering to engage in an aircraft operation”

airport

Defined in Wild Fauna and Flora Act, s 2

“means any place which has been prescribed under the Customs Order, 2006 as a customs airport”

alcohol

Defined in Excise Order, 2006, s 2

“means ethyl alcohol”

alienated land

Defined in Water Supply Act, s 2

“means State land leased or otherwise disposed of by or on behalf of the Government”

allied health professional

Defined in Allied Health Professions of Brunei Darussalam Act, s 2

“means a person who has a professional qualification in any of the allied health professions listed in the Schedule”

allied health professional with conditional registration

Defined in Allied Health Professions of Brunei Darussalam Act, s 2

“means a person registered as such under section 12(3)(b), 14(1) or (3), 33(l)(b)(iii), 45(l)(g)(iii), 49(2)(c) or 53(l)(b)”

allied health professional with full registration

Defined in Allied Health Professions of Brunei Darussalam Act, s 2

“means a person registered as such under section 12(1) or (2)”

allied health professional with restricted registration

Defined in Allied Health Professions of Brunei Darussalam Act, s 2

“means a person registered as such under section 12(3)(a), 13(1), 33(l)(b)(iii), 45(l)(g)(iii), 49(2)(c) or 53(l)(b)”

allied health professional with temporary registration

Defined in Allied Health Professions of Brunei Darussalam Act, s 2

“means a person registered as such under section 15(1)”

allied professional

Defined in Architects, Professional Engineers and Quantity Surveyors Act, s 2

“means — (a) an architect, other than a naval architect or a landscape architect, who is registered under this Act; (b) a professional engineer who is registered under this Act; or (c) a quantity surveyor who is registered under this Act”