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“Dental Officer” means the Medical Officer or Dental Officer appointed under section 14;

“Director” means the Director of Prisons appointed under section 10 and includes the Assistant Director of Prisons;

“disciplinary offence” means any offence committed by a prison officer below the rank of Principal Officer against prison discipline as specified in rules made under this Act;

“Officer-in-Charge” means any prison officer not below the rank of Principal Officer who is in charge of any prisons;

“Medical Officer” means the Medical Officer or Dental Officer appointed under section 14;

“minor prison offence” and “aggravated prison offence” mean any offence committed by a prisoner against prison discipline and so specified in the rules made under this Act;

“police officer” has the same meaning as in the Royal Brunei

Police Force Act (Chapter 50);

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“prison” means any house, building, enclosure, or place or any part thereof, declared to be a prison under section 3;

“prisoner” means any person, whether convicted or not, under confinement in any prison;

“prison officer” means any Chief Officer, Warden, Principal

Officer, Probation Officer, Matron, Warder or Wardress and includes the Director and the Assistant Director;

“psychiatric facility” includes any Government psychiatric facility for the reception of persons ordered to be detained therein under the Mental Health Order, 2014 (S 25/2014);

“registered dentist” means a dentist whose name has been registered in accordance with any written law relating to the registration of medical practitioners and dentists in force in Brunei

Darussalam;

“registered medical practitioner” means any medical practitioner registered in accordance with any written law relating to the registration of medical practitioners and dentists in force in Brunei

Darussalam;

“sentence of imprisonment” means any sentence involving confinement in a prison, whether combined or not with labour, and includes a sentence awarded by way of commutation as well as an original sentence passed by a court;

“stage” means any stage of imprisonment prescribed by rules made under this Act;

“subordinate officer” means any prison officer below the rank of

Principal Officer;

“Visiting Justice” means a member of the Board of Visiting Justice appointed under section 60;

“young prisoner” means any person who, in the absence of proof to the contrary, is under the age of 18 years and, whether convicted or not, under detention in any prison.

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