Article 45
Assent to Bills
of Constitutional Matters I - Constitution of Brunei Darussalam
(1)
When any Bill has been passed by the Legislative Council, such
Bill shall only become law either in the form in which it was passed or with
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CONST. I such amendments as His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan shall think fit, if His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan assents to, signs and seals the Bill with the State Seal.
(2)
In the event His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan amends the Bill after it has been passed by the Legislative Council,
His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan shall not be required to refer the
Bill back to the Legislative Council.
(3)
A law assented to by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang
Di-Pertuan shall come into operation on the date on which such assent shall be given, or, if it shall be enacted either in such law or in some other law
(including any law in force on the commencement of this Part) that it shall come into operation on some other date, on that date.