Section 16
Immigration signal
(1)
Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), the master of every vessel which arrives in or is about to leave Brunei Darussalam shall hoist the prescribed immigration signal and shall exhibit such signal until authorised by a Senior Immigration Officer to haul it down.
(2)
The provisions of subsection (1) do not apply to any vessel which plies solely between ports in Brunei Darussalam.
(3)
The master of any vessel who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of subsection (1) is guilty of an offence.
Immigration
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Vessel or flying boat to proceed to Immigration Anchorage or other place ordered by Immigration Officer 17.
(1)
The Controller may, by notification published in the Gazette, declare any place in any river or within the territorial waters of
Brunei Darussalam to be an Immigration Anchorage, either for vessels generally or for vessels of a class specified in the notification or for flying boats; and the master of any vessel or flying boat which arrives at or is about to leave a place where an Immigration Anchorage, either for vessels generally or for vessels of a class to which such vessel belongs or for flying boats, has been declared shall, subject to any directions given under subsection (3), forthwith navigate his vessel or flying boat to such anchorage and shall remain there until an Immigration Officer gives him permission to leave.
(2)
No vessel or flying boat carrying passengers, other than a vessel which plies solely between ports in Brunei Darussalam, shall proceed to any place in Brunei Darussalam other than a place within which an Immigration
Anchorage has been declared under subsection (1).
(3)
The master of every vessel or flying boat which arrives in or is about to leave Brunei Darussalam shall, if so ordered by an Immigration
Officer, anchor or tie up his vessel or flying boat at such place as may be ordered, and shall remain there until an Immigration Officer gives him permission to leave.
(4)
The master of any vessel or flying boat who, without reasonable cause, contravenes or fails to comply with any provisions of this section or any order made or direction given thereunder is guilty of an offence.