Section 90
Magistrate may require any officer in command of troops to disperse unlawful assembly
(1)
When a Magistrate or a police officer determines to disperse any such assembly by military force, he may require any commissioned or non-commissioned officer in command of any soldiers, sailors or airmen of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces or of any armed forces lawfully serving within Brunei Darussalam to disperse such assembly by military force and to arrest and confine such persons forming part of it as the Magistrate or the police officer may direct or as it may be necessary to arrest and confine in order to disperse the assembly or that they may be punished according to law.
(2)
Every such officer shall obey such requisition in such manner as he thinks fit, but in so doing he shall use as little force and do as little injury to person and property as may be consistent with dispersing the assembly and arresting and detaining such persons.
When commissioned officer may disperse unlawful assembly by military force 91.
When the public security is manifestly endangered by any such assembly, and when neither a Magistrate nor a police officer empowered by section 90 to require such an assembly to be dispersed by military force can be communicated with, any commissioned officer of the Royal Brunei a
Armed Forces or of any armed forces lawfully serving within Brunei
Darussalam may disperse such assembly by military force and may arrest and confine any person forming part of it in order to disperse such assembly or that they may be punished according to law; but if while he is acting under this section it becomes practicable for him to communicate with any
Magistrate or gazetted police officer, he shall do so and shall obey the instructions of such Magistrate or police officer as to whether he shall or shall not continue such action.
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Criminal Procedure Code
Protection against prosecution for acts done under this Chapter 92.
No prosecution against any Magistrate or police officer or any officer, soldier, sailor or airman of any armed forces, for any act purporting to be done under this Chapter, shall be instituted in any criminal Court except with the sanction of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Council;
and -
(a)
no Magistrate or police officer acting under this Chapter in good faith;
(3)
no person doing any act in good faith in compliance with a requisition under section 88 or 90;
(c)
no inferior officer, soldier, sailor or airman doing any act in obedience to any order which he was bound to obey;
(d)
no officer acting under section 91 in good faith, is deemed to have thereby committed an offence.