Section 11
Power to make regulations
(1)
His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan may by regulations amend the Passports Regulations and make regulations for all or any of the following purposes —
(a)
appointing authorised officers who may issue, renew or endorse a passport;
(b)
empowering officers to issue, renew and endorse a passport and to grant a visa on any travel document requiring a visa for
Brunei Darussalam;
(c)
empowering the authority who may approve forms to be used for the issue, renewal and endorsement of a passport and also forms to be used for the grant of a visa;
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(d)
prescribing the fees to be charged in relation to the issue, renewal or endorsement of a passport or for the grant of a visa for
Brunei Darussalam;
(e)
empowering officers to grant exemption from the payment of fees under the provisions of any regulations made under this Act;
(f)
prescribing the terms and conditions subject to which any person may be granted a passport;
(g)
empowering officers who may invalidate, cancel, withdraw and repossess a passport which has been invalidated or cancelled;
(h)
empowering officers who may cancel any visa, renewal or endorsement of a passport;
(i)
empowering officers to demand the delivering up of a cancelled or invalidated passport bearing any visa, renewal or endorsement which has been cancelled or invalidated;
(j)
prescribing the procedure to impound, repossess or recover any passport;
(k)
providing for the arrest, detention and prosecution of any person who contravenes the provisions of any regulations made under this Act;
(l)
prescribing for the search of any person, premises, vessel, aircraft or vehicle and to seize or recover any evidence of the commission of any offence committed under any regulations made under this Act;
(m)
prescribing the prohibition for any person or class or persons from entering or leaving Brunei Darussalam by land, sea or air without the production of a passport and for enforcing such prohibitions by requiring answers to enquiries and for the delivering up of any passport;
(n)
governing the procedure to be followed and the fees and costs to be paid on appeal under the provisions of any regulations made under this Act;
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(o)
prescribing penalties to a fine not exceeding $2,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or both, such fine and imprisonment for the breach of any regulations made under this Act.
(2)
All regulations made under subsection (1) shall be published in the
Government Gazette.