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any police officer;

any person holding a commission in any armed force or in any visiting force;

any member of any armed force or of any visiting force performing the duties of a guard or sentry in any protected area or protected place in accordance with orders issued by a person holding a commission in any armed force or visiting force;

any person performing the duties of a guard or watchman in a protected area or a protected place and specially authorised in that behalf under section 3; or

any member of the Gurkha Reserve Unit;

“Minister” means the Minister of Home Affairs;

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“officer commanding a Police District” means the officer appointed to perform the duties of that office and when such officer is unable through absence, illness or otherwise to perform his duties, means the police officer present and

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acting in the Police District who is next in rank below such appointed officer;

“police force” has the same meaning as in the Royal Brunei Police

Force Act (Chapter 50), and includes —

the Brunei Volunteer Police Force, or any part thereof, when on active service; and

any auxilliary or special police force constituted under any written law for the time being in force, or any part of any such force, when on active service;

“police officer” means any member of the police force;

“protected area” means any area declared to be a protected area under section 4;

“protected place” means any place or premises declared to be a protected place under section 5;

“visiting force” means any visiting force for the time being in

Brunei Darussalam by virtue of any other written law or by virtue of any lawful arrangement made by or on behalf of the

Government of Brunei Darussalam.