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means gunpowder, nitroglycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting powder, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, coloured fires and every other substance, whether similar to those above-mentioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect; and

@) includes fog signals, fireworks, fuses, rockets, percussion-caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as above defined; and

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includes any material for making any explosive and any apparatus, machine. implement or material used or intended to be used or adapted for causing or aiding in causing any

(h explosion in or with any explosive, and any part of any such apparatus, machine or implement;

"firearm" means any lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged or which can be adapted for the discharge of any such shot, bullet or other missile and any weapon of whatever description designed or adapted for the discharge of any noxious liquid. gas or other thing, and includes any component part of any such weapon as aforesaid;

"injurious thing" means anything which is of such a nature or is present in such a quantity as to be capable of being used for causing or contributing to the causing of injury to the person or to property;

"meeting" means an assembly held for the purpose of the discussion of matters of public interest or for the purpose of the expression of views on such matters;

"Minister" means the Minister of Home Affairs;

"offensive weapon" includes any instrument which if used as a weapon of offence is likely to cause hurt;

"Officer Commanding Police District" means the officer appointed to perform the duties of that ofice and when such officer is unable through absence, illness or otherwise to perform his duties, means the police officer present and acting in the Police District who is next in rank below such officer appointed as aforesaid;

"police force" has the same meaning as the "Force" 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 a

@) any auxiliary 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;

"prison officer" has the same meaning as in the Prisons

Act (Chapter 5 1);

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"procession" means a procession of five or more persons or three or more vehicles or vessels;

"public place" includes any highway, public street, public road, public park or garden, any sea beach, river, waterway, public bridge. lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, any unalienated land, any theatre or place of public entertainment of any kind or other place of general resort admission to which is obtained by payment or to which the public have access. and any open space (whether enclosed or unenclosed)

to which for the time being the public have or are permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise;

"public road" means any public highway or any road over which the public have a right of way or are granted access, and includes every road. street, bridge, passage. footway or square over which the public have a right of way or are granted access;

"security force" means the police force, the Royal Brunei Armed

Forces, Gurkha Reserve Unit, any other armed force for the time being in Brunei Darussalam or any visiting force present for the time being in Brunei Darussalam by virtue of any written law or by virtue of any lawful arrangement made by or on behalf of the

Government;

"subversive article" means any article which contains any subversive matter and any article purporting to be a subversive article shall be presumed to be a subversive article until the contrary is proved.

has a seditious intention within the meaning of the Sedition

Act (Chapter 24);

is likely to excite organised violence against persons or property in Brunei Darussalam;

supports, propagates or advocates any act prejudicial to the public safety in Brunei Darussalam or the maintenance or restoration of public order therein, or incites or is likely to lead to violence

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(4 incites or is likely to lead to feeling of ill will or hostility between different races or classes of the population in Brunei

Darussalam;

is a record or account of or receipt for, or invites, requests or demands support for or on account of any collection, subscription, contribution or donation, whether in money or in kind, for the direct or indirect benefit or use of persons who intend to act or are about to act. or have acted, in a manner prejudicial to the public safety in

Brunei Darussalam or to the maintenance or restoration of public order therein, or who incite to violence therein or counsel disobedience to the law thereof or any lawful order therein; or

(fl is likely to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against -

any class of public servants, or any public servant in the execution of his duty; or