Words starting with E

environmental officer

Defined in Environmental Protection and Management Act, s 3

“means the Environmental Officer appointed under section 10”

environmentally sound management

Defined in Hazardous Waste (Control of Export, Import and Transit) Act, s 2

“has the meaning given to it by section 8; Hazardous Waste (Control of Export, Import and Transit)”

equipment

Defined in Secured Transactions Act, s 3

“means goods that are held by a debtor other than as inventory or consumer goods”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

essential service

Defined in Cybersecurity Act, s 2

“means any service essential to the national security, defence, foreign relations, economy, public health, public safety or public order of Brunei Darussalam and specified in the Schedule”

estate duty

Defined in Probate and Administration Act, s 2

“means estate duty under the Stamp cap. Act”

Also defined in 1 other Act

European Patent Convention

Defined in Patents Act, s 2

“means the Convention on the Grant of European Patents”

European Patent Office

Defined in Patents Act, s 2

“means the office of that name established by the European Patent Convention”

evaluative purpose

Defined in Personal Data Protection Order, 2025, s 2

“means-fa} for the purpose of determining the suitability, eligibility or qualifications of the individual to whom the data relates - (i) for employment or for appointment to office; (ii) for promotion in employment or office or for …”

event

Defined in Disaster Management Act, s 2

“has the meaning ascribed to it by section 7(1)”

evidence

Defined in Evidence Act, s 3

“includes — (a) all statements which the court permits or requires to be made before it by witnesses in relation to matters of fact under inquiry: such statements are called oral evidence; (b) all documents produced for the inspection of …”

examination

Defined in Wholesome Meat Order, 2011, s 2

“includes laboratory analysis”

examine

Defined in Animal (Diseases and Quarantine) Act, s 2

“means to carry out in respect of such animal or carcase, such manner of inspection, examination and test as may be necessary for the purposes of determining whether the animal or carcase thereof is infected with any disease”

examiner

Defined in Patents Act, s 2

“means such person, organisation or foreign or international patent office or organisation as may be prescribed to whom the Registrar may refer questions relating to patents, including search and examination of applications for patents”

Also defined in 1 other Act

excepted telecommunication employee

Defined in Telecommunication Successor Company Order, 2001, s 2

“means any officer or employee which the Authority may specify as necessary or expedient to be retained by the Authority (or the Authority's nominee) for the exercise of any of the duties and functions relating to telecommunications under …”

exchange of information provision

Defined in Income Tax Act, s 86A

“means a provision in that arrangement which provides expressly for the exchange of information concerning the tax positions of persons”

excise duty

Defined in Free Trade Zones Act, s 2

“has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Excise Order, 2006”

excise warehouse

Defined in Excise Order, 2006, s 2

“means a customs warehouse or other place established by the Minister, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, under section 59 of the Customs Order, 2006 for the deposit of dutiable goods”

excluded invitation

Defined in Securities Markets Order, 2013, s 115

“means an invitation or offer which is specified as such in this Order or prescribed by the Authority to be an excluded invitation or excluded offer under this Part”

excluded issue

Defined in Securities Markets Order, 2013, s 115

“means an issue which is specified in this Order or which is prescribed by the Authority to be an excluded issue under this Part”

excluded liabilities

Defined in Petroleum Authority of Brunei Darussalam Act, s 2

“means - (a) in relation to the Company, such existing liabilities of the Company as may be excluded from the petroleum regulatory undertaking of the Company under section 30(1); and • Petroleum Autl~ority of Brune i Darussalun~…”

excluded offer

Defined in Securities Markets Order, 2013, s 115

“means an invitation or offer which is specified as such in this Order or prescribed by the Authority to be an excluded invitation or excluded offer under this Part”

excluded person

Defined in National Bank of Brunei; National Finance Sendirian Berhad Act, s 2

“means any person whom the Controller may from time to time designate as an excluded person for the purposes hereof”

exclusive licence

Defined in Industrial Designs Order, 1999, s 2

“means a licence {whether general or limited) signed by or on behalf of the owner of an industrial design, authorising the licensee to the exclusion of all other persons, including the person granting the licence, to exercise in the manner …”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

executive director

Defined in Centre for Strategic and Policy Studies Act, s 2

“means the Executive Director of the Centre appointed under section 16”

Also defined in 1 other Act

Executive Manager

Defined in Insolvency Act, s 3

“means a person appointed as such under section 230(1)”

executive officer

Defined in Companies Act, s 2

“means any person, by whatever name described, who - (a) is in the direct employment of, or acting for or by arrangement with, the company; and (b) is concerned with or takes part in the management of the company on a day-to-day basis”

Also defined in 1 other Act

executor

Defined in Income Tax Act, s 2

“means any executor, administrator or other person administering the estate of a deceased person”

Also defined in 1 other Act

exhibition

Defined in Censorship of Films and Public Entertainments Act, s 2

“means exhibition in a place to which the public or any class of the public has or may have access”

existing

Defined in Insurance Order, 2006, s 2

“means existing immediately before the commencement of this Order”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

expanding enterprise

Defined in Investment Incentives Order, 2001, s 3

“means any company which has been approved by the Minister and to which an expansion certificate has been issued under section 31”