Section 199

Every assignment of or charge on, and every agreement to assign or charge, any pay, military award, grant, pension, gratuity or allowance payable to any person in respect of his or any other person’s service in the Armed Forces or the Reserve Regiment shall be void.

Except as expressly provided by this Act, no order shall be made by any court the effect of which would be to restrain any person from receiving anything which by virtue of this section he is precluded from assigning and to direct payment thereof to another person.

Nothing in this section shall be binding on the Government or prejudice the provisions of any written law providing for the payment of any sum to a bankrupt’s trustee in bankruptcy for distribution among creditors.

Power of certain officers to take affidavits and declarations 200.

An officer of a rank not below that of Major (in this section referred to as an authorised officer) may, at a place abroad, take affidavits and declarations from persons subject to military law.

A declaration taken pursuant to subsection (1) from any of such persons by an authorised officer, if taken as nearly as circumstances permit in the manner provided by the Statutory Declarations Act (Chapter 12), is deemed for the purposes of that Act, to have been made and taken in Brunei

Darussalam by such officer with the authority of His Majesty the Sultan and

Yang Di-Pertuan by virtue of the provisions of that Act.

A document purporting to have subscribed thereto the signature of an authorised officer in testimony of an affidavit or declaration being taken before him in pursuance of this section and containing in the jurat or attestation a statement of the date on which and the place at which the affidavit or declaration was taken and of the full name and rank of that officer shall be admitted in evidence without proof of the signature being the signature of that officer or of the facts so stated.

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Exclusion of requirement of Attorney General’s consent for proceedings 201.

With the exception of sections 72(6) and 119(1) and (2), no written law requiring the fiat of consent of the Attorney General or the Public

Prosecutor in connection with any proceedings shall have effect in relation to proceedings under this Act.