Kuala Belait and Seria (Municipal Board Areas) Declaration, 1959

This Declaration may be cited as the Kuala Belait and

Seria (Municipal Board Areas) Declaration,

Boundaries of the 2.

The boundaries of the Kuala

Belait Municipal Board

᪽᪽:faB᪽:;d\᪽᪽ni-Areas are as set out in the First Schedule.

Citation.

Boundaries of the

Seria Municipal

Board

Area.

Revocation.

3,

The boundaries of the Seria Muncipal Board Area are as set out in the

Second

Schedule.

4,

The notifications referred to in the Third Schedule are revoked.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Kuala

Belait Municipal Board Area

The area on the East side of the Belait River bounded as allows:

mmencing at the point on the true right bank of the

Ri r

Belait where the Seria-Lutong pipeline crosses

, the iver Belait, thence in a north-westerly direction along e true right bank of the said river to the point where it ioins the China Sea, thence by the line of the level of th mean low water springs in an easterly direc­

tion to the ue left bank of the River Murnong where it joins the CH'

a Sea, thence due south to an imaginary point at a distan of 16 chains from the southern bound­

ary of the Jalan eria road reserve, westwards parallel to the said bounda of the said road reserve to the boundary stone makin the south-western corner bound­

ary of lot No. 724 Kua

Belait, thence due south to an-other imaginary point at distance of 50 chains from the last point, thence in straight line to a point on the true right bank of the iver Belait 30 chains up river from the true left bank a the River Duhun where it joins the River Belait, thence llowing the true right bank of the River Belait to the poi of commencement.

2.

The area on the West side of the Riv as follows:

commencing at a point on the true left bank of the

Sungei Teraban where it enters the River Be it, follow­

ing the true left bank of the Sungei Teraban a Lubok

Akang, thence in a northerly direction to the oint of intersection of the prolongation of an imaginary s aight line joining Lubok Akang to Survey Peg. No. LX

II with the true left bank of the River Belait, thence folIo

-

ing the river bank in a south-easterly direction to th point of commencement.

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SECOND

Seria Municipal Board Area

On the east, commencing at the intersection of Lorong

Tengah and Jalan Tengah at its south-western corner, by Lorong Tengah southwards on its western edge to the intersection of Jalan Tiga Selatan and Lorong Tengah at its north-western corner thence westwards along the northern edge of Jalan Tiga Selatan at its north-eastern corner, thence northwards along the eastern edge of

Lorong Tiga Barat to the intersection of Lorong Tiga

Barat and Jalan Bunga Melor at its north-eastern corner, thence running eastwards along Jalan Bunga Melor on its northern edge to the intersection of Jalan Sultan Omar

Ali and Jalan Bunga Melor on its north-eastern corner, thence northwards along the eastern edge of Jalan Sultan

Omar Ali to the intersection of Jalan Sultan Omar Ali and Jalan Tengah at its south-eastern edge of Jalan

Tengah to the point of commencement.

THIRD SCHEDULE

1.

British

Resident's Office Notification

No.

4 of 1949.

2.

Gazette Notification No. S 54 of 1954.

3

Gazette Notification No.

S 77 of 1955.

MADE this 25th day of February,

1959.

E. W. COUSENS,

Acting British Resident,

Brunei.

Explanatory Note

This declaration defines anew the boundaries, respectively, of the Kuala

Belait and

Seria Municipal

Board

Areas.

In the case of the Seria Municipal Board Area the area of Oil Well

No.

22

is now included.

2.

The Brunei Town Municipal Board Area is, at present, defined by Gazette Notification No.

S

10 of 1957

and it is intended that the Tutong Municipal Board Area will be defined later.

At present,

British Resident's

Office

Notification dated 13th November,

1929, defines the last by reference to an area on a plan.

Britslh Resident's Office,

Brunei, 5th March,

1959.