Words starting with S

service

Defined in Competition Act, s 2

“means a service of any description whether industrial, trade, professional or otherwise”

Also defined in 1 other Act

services

Defined in Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act, s 2

“includes — (a) a service offered or provided that involves the addition to or maintenance, repair or alteration of goods or any residential property; (b) a membership in any club or organisation if the club or organisation is a business …”

servicing company

Defined in Investment Incentives Order, 2001, s 88

“means a company which has been approved as a servicing company und~r section 89”

servitude

Defined in Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, s 2

“means any condition or obligation. not authorised by any written law, to work or to render services from which the individual cannot escape or which the individual is not free to change”

session

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

“means the meeting of that Council commencing when it first meets after being constituted under this Constitution, or after its prorogation or dissolution at any time, and terminating when that Council is prorogued or is dissolved without …”

set of Article 11 regulations

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

“has the meaning given to it by section 18”

settlement

Defined in Specific Relief Act, s 2

“means any instrument (other than a will or codicil) whereby the destination or devolution of successive interests in movable or immovable property is disposed of or is agreed to be disposed of”

Also defined in 1 other Act

settlement institution

Defined in Payment and Settlement Systems (Finality and Netting) Act, s 2

“means a body corporate providing accounts for the participants of the designated system to hold funds and to settle transactions between participants in the designated system”

Also defined in 1 other Act

settlor

Defined in International Trusts Order, 2000, s 2

“includes the testator where trusts are declared by will or codicil”

sewage

Defined in Environmental Protection and Management Act, s 3

“includes water-borne domestic waste and trade effluent”

sexual exploitation

Defined in Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, s 2

“means involving the individual in prostitution, sexual servitude or the provision of any other form of sexual service, including the commission of any obscene or indecent act by the individual or the use of the individual in any audio or …”

share

Defined in Banking Act, s 2

“means a share in the share capital of that institution and includes an interest in such share”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

shared residence

Defined in Islamic Family Law Act, s 60A

“means the premises at which the parties are, or have been, living together as members of the same household”

shareholders' fund

Defined in Investment Incentives Order, 2001, s 103

“means the aggregate amount of a company's paid up capital (in respect of preference shares and ordinary shares and not including any amount in respect of bonus shares to the extent they were issued out of capital reserves created by …”

shares

Defined in International Trusts Order, 2000, s 2

“means share in the capital of a company and (where the context so admits) include stock, units, options, warrants depository receipts and rights to acquire shares and in Part XIIA, includes dedicated shares”

shelf registration scheme

Defined in Securities Markets Order, 2013, s 115

“means a scheme applicable for the purpose of any issue of, offer for subscription or purchase of, or invitation to subscribe for or purchase, securities by an issuer based on a shelf prospectus and a supplementary shelf prospectus”

shelter

Defined in Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, s 2

“means any shelter declared as such under section 41”

sheriff

Defined in Distress Act, s 2

“includes a bailiff and any clerk or other officer charged with the duties of a sheriff and appointed as such by the Registrar of the High Court”

shift work

Defined in Employment Act, s 2

“means work which by reason of its nature requires to be carried on continuously by two or more shifts”

ship

Defined in Maritime Offences (Ships and Fixed Platforms) Act, s 2

“means a vessel of any type whatsoever not permanently attached to the seabed or which has been withdrawn from navigation or laid up, including a dynamically supported craft, a submersible and any other floating craft”

Also defined in 7 other Acts

ship or chinchew receipt

Defined in Stamp Act, s 2

“means any instrument signed by an officer or chinchew of a vessel acknowledging the receipt of goods therein described when a bill of lading is not given”

shoot

Defined in Wild Life Protection Act, s 2

“includes shooting at”

short-lived materials

Defined in Building Control Act, s 2

“means any building materials which are, in the absence of special care, liable to rapid deterioration or are otherwise unsuitable for use in the construction of permanent buildings”

sign

Defined in Interpretation and General Clauses Act, s 3

“includes, in the case of a person unable to write, the making of a mark or the affixing of a thumbprint or chop”

signature

Defined in Electronic Transactions Act, s 2

“includes any symbol executed or adopted, or any methodology or procedure employed or adopted, by a person with the intention of authenticating a record, including electronic or digital methods”

signed

Defined in Electronic Transactions Act, s 2

“includes any symbol executed or adopted, or any methodology or procedure employed or adopted, by a person with the intention of authenticating a record, including electronic or digital methods”

significant control

Defined in Companies Act, s 310B

“has the meaning given to it in Schedule 17”

significant interest

Defined in Companies Act, s 310B

“has the meaning given to it in Schedule 17.”

signified

Defined in Religious Council and Kadis Courts Act, s 2

“means signified under the hand of the Secretary to the Majlis”

site supervisor

Defined in Building Control Act, s 2

“means a person appointed (whether alone or as a member of a team of site supervisors) under section 14 to be a site supervisor in respect of any small-scale or large building works”