Words starting with P

public officer

Defined in Constitutional Matters I - Constitution of Brunei Darussalam, art 2

“means the holder of any public office and includes any person appointed to act in any such office”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

public place

Defined in Public Order Act, s 2

“includes any highway, public street, public road, public park or garden, any sea beach, river, waterway, public bridge. lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, any unalienated land, any theatre or …”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

public postal licensee

Defined in Postal Services Act, s 2

“means a person designated by the Authority under section 9”

public property

Defined in Royal Brunei Armed Forces Act, s 2

“means any property belonging to or held for the purposes of any public body”

public purpose

Defined in Town and Country Planning Act, s 2

“means any land needed for the purposes of carrying out the land provisions of an approved development plan and such land is deemed to be land for a public purpose as provided in section 3(1) of the Land Acquisition Act”

public records

Defined in Brunei National Archives Act, s 2

“means papers, documents, re-cords, registers, printed material, books, maps, plans, drawings, photographs, microfilms, cine-matograph, films and sound recordings of any kind whatsoever, officially received or produced by any public office …”

public road

Defined in Public Order Act, s 2

“means any public highway or any road over which the public have a right of way or are granted access, and includes every road. street, bridge, passage. footway or square over which the public have a right of way or are granted access”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

public servant

Defined in Interpretation and General Clauses Act, s 3

“means any person holding any appointment or discharging the duties of any public office and any employee or member of a public body, whether temporary or permanent and whether paid or unpaid”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

Public Service Commission

Defined in Constitutional Matters III - Constitution (Financial Procedure) Order, art 2

“means the Public Service Commission established by Article 71 of the Constitution”

public service vehicle

Defined in Road Traffic Act, s 2

“means a motor vehicle ordinarily used, whether in part or in whole, for the purpose of conveying passengers or goods or both, for hire or reward, whether under contract to a person plying for hire or generally, and, in the case of a …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

public standpipe

Defined in Water Supply Act, s 2

“means any fountain, standpipe, valve, tap or appliance provided and maintained by the Authority for the purpose of supplying water to the public”

public stores

Defined in Audit Act, s 2

“means chattels the property of or in the possession or under the control of Brunei Darussalam”

Also defined in 1 other Act

publication

Defined in Undesirable Publications Act, s 2

“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) …”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

publication relating to religions other than Islam

Defined in Syariah Penal Code, s 2

“means a holy book, or a fundamental book or one of the important texts, of a religion other than Islam or if it is in essence a publication that — (a) contains any excerpts, quotations, citations, or copies whether partly or wholly from …”

publicly available

Defined in Personal Data Protection Order, 2025, s 2

“means personal data that is generally available to the public, and includes personal BRUNEI DARUSSALAM GOVERNMENT GAZETTE data which can be observed by reasonably expected means at a location or an event- (a} at which the individual …”

publish

Defined in Trade Marks Act, s 2

“means make available to the public, and references to publication — (a) in relation to an application for registration, are to publication under section 39(1); and (b) in relation to registration, are to publication under section 41(4)”

Also defined in 1 other Act

published

Defined in Patents Act, s 2

“means made available to the public (whether in Brunei Darussalam or elsewhere) and a document shall be taken to be published under any provision of this Act if it can be inspected as of right at any place in Brunei Darussalam by members of …”

published reserves

Defined in Banking Act, s 2

“means reserves which appear in its accounts but does not include any reserves which are represented by the written-down value of assets or by provision for the depreciation of fixed assets or which are maintained for any specific purposes.”

Also defined in 1 other Act

pupil

Defined in Education Act, s 2

“means a person of any age for whom education or training is being provided in an educational institution”

purchase

Defined in Secured Transactions Act, s 3

“means taking by sale, lease, discount, assignment, negotiation, mortgage, pledge, lien, issue, reissue, gift or any other consensual transaction that creates an interest in personal property”

purchase money security interest

Defined in Secured Transactions Act, s 3

“means — (a) a security interest taken in collateral by a seller that secures the obligation to pay any unpaid portion of the purchase price of the collateral; (b) a security interest taken in collateral by a person who gives value for the …”

purchaser

Defined in Weights and Measures Act, s 2

“includes any person acting on behalf of the purchaser”