Words starting with S

statutory corporation

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

“means a body corporate established by or under written law to perform or discharge any public function”

statutory declaration

Defined in Interpretation and General Clauses Act, s 3

“means a declaration under the Statutory Declarations Act; (b) in any part of the Commonwealth except Brunei Darussalam, means a declaration made before a justice of the peace, notary public or other person having authority therein under …”

statutory report

Defined in Companies Act, s 2

“means the report referred to in section 112(2)”

statutory valuation

Defined in Insurance Order, 2006, s 2

“mean respectively a balance-sheet lodged with the Authority in order to comply with subsection (1) of section 59, and a valuation of which the results are shown in a valuation balance-sheet lodged with him on an actuarial investigation …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

steam container

Defined in Workplace Safety and Health Act, s 4

“means any vessel, other than a steam pipe or coil — (a) constructed with a permanent outlet into the atmosphere or into a space where the pressure does not exceed atmospheric pressure; and (b) through which steam is passed at atmospheric …”

steam receiver

Defined in Workplace Safety and Health Act, s 4

“means any vessel or apparatus, other than a steam boiler, steam container, steam pipe or coil or a part of a prime mover, used for containing steam under pressure greater than atmospheric pressure”

stock

Defined in International Trusts Order, 2000, s 2

“includes fully paid up shares and, so far as relates to vesting orders made by the Court under this Order, includes any fund, annuity or security transferable in books kept by any company or society or by instruments of transfer either …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

stop-tap

Defined in Water Supply Act, s 2

“means the stopcock, stop valve and any other device for stopping the flow of water in a line of pipes”

stopcock

Defined in Water Supply Act, s 2

“means any stop-tap placed on the inlet of a meter and controlling the supply of water to any premises charged or chargeable separately with water rate, municipal rate, charge or rent”

stoppages

Defined in Royal Brunei Armed Forces Act, s 2

“means the recovery, by deductions from the pay of the offender, of a specified sum by way of compensation for any expense, loss or damage occasioned by the offence”

storage licence

Defined in Fire Safety Act, s 36

“means a licence to store or keep any class of petroleum or any flammable material at any premises specified in the licence”

stowaway

Defined in Immigration Act, s 2

“means a person who goes to sea secreted in a vessel without the consent of the master or other person in charge of the vessel or of a person entitled to give such consent and includes a person arriving in Brunei Darussalam on board any …”

strata plan

Defined in Land Code (Strata) Act, s 2

“means a plan that has been or is intended to be certified under section 9”

Strategic Development Capital Fund

Defined in Sustainability Fund Act, s 2

“means the Trust Sub-Fund referred to in section 4(2)(c)”

stratum estate

Defined in Land Code (Strata) Act, s 2

“means a stratum estate within the meaning of subsection (2) of section 9”

street

Defined in Fire Safety Act, s 2

“includes — (a) any road, bridge, underpass, tunnel, square, footway or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public has a right of way; and (b) any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be …”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

strike

Defined in Trade Disputes Act, s 2

“means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed, acting in combination, or a Short title Interpreta-tion…”

structural elements

Defined in Building Control Act, s 2

“means those parts or elements of a building which resist forces and moments, and includes foundations, beams, columns, shear cores, structural walls, struts, ground anchors, slabs, trusses, staircases, load bearing walls and all other …”

structural engineer

Defined in Building Control Act, s 38

“means a person who is registered under the Architects, Professional Engineers and Quantity Surveyors Order, 2011 in the civil or structural engineering discipline and who has in force a practising certificate issued under that Order …”

structural works

Defined in Building Control Act, s 2

“means works in relation to the structural elements of the building works”

sub-contractor

Defined in Employment Act, s 2

“means any person who contracts with a contractor for the supply of labour or for the execution by the sub-contractor of the whole or any part of any work undertaken by the contractor for his principal, and includes any person who contracts …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

sub-contractor for labour

Defined in Employment Act, s 2

“means any person who contracts with a contractor or sub-contractor to supply the labour required for the execution of the whole or any part of any work a contractor or sub-contractor has contracted to carry out for a principal or …”

subdivision agreement

Defined in Town and Country Planning Act, s 2

“means any agreement whereby any person is given — (a) a right, whether vested or contingent, to acquire, lease or obtain possession of any lot or piece of land, whether immediately or on the fulfilment of any condition or on the happening …”

subdivision load line

Defined in Merchant Shipping Order, 2002, s 2

“means a line indicating the maximum depth to which a passenger ship may be loaded having regard to the extent to which it is subdivided and to the space for the time being allotted to BRUNEI DARUSSALAM GOVERNMENT GAZETTE passengers as …”

subdivision permission

Defined in Town and Country Planning Act, s 2

“means permission referred to in section 23(3)”

subordinate officer

Defined in Fire and Rescue Act, s 2

“means a member of the Fire and Rescue of the rank of Station Officer and Assistant Station Officer. B. L.R. 0. 6.'?0?1”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

subordinate police officer

Defined in Royal Brunei Police Force Act, s 2

“means a police officer of any rank from and including sergeant-major down to and including a constable.”

subscriber

Defined in Electronic Transactions Act, s 2

“means a person who is the subject named or identified in a certificate issued to him and who holds a private key that corresponds to a public key listed in that certificate”

subscription broadcasting service

Defined in Broadcasting Act, s 2

“means a licensable broadcasting service made available to the audience for whom it is intended only upon the payment of a subscription fee”

subscription fee

Defined in Broadcasting Act, s 2

“means any form of consideration.”