LAWS OF BRUNEI 14 CAP. 153 Official Secrets Duty to give information. 10. It shall be the duty of every person to give on demand to any police officer not below the rank of Inspector, or to any officer of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan’s Forces on duty, or to any member of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan’s Forces engaged on guard, sentry, patrol or other similar duty, any information in his power relating to an offence or suspected offence against this Act, and if so required, and upon tender of his reasonable expenses, to attend at such reasonable time and place as may be specified for the purpose of furnishing such information, and if any person fails to give any such information or to so attend he is guilty of an offence against this Act. Harbouring. 11. (1) If any person knowingly harbours any person whom he knows, or has reasonable grounds for supposing, to be a person who is about to commit or who has committed an offence against this Act, or knowingly permits to meet or assemble in any premises in his occupation or under his control any such persons, or if any person having harboured any such person or permitted any such persons to meet or assemble in any premises in his occupation or under his control, wilfully omits or refuses to disclose to a police officer any information which it is in his power to give in relation to any such person, he is guilty of an offence against this Act. (2) In this section, “harbour” includes supplying a person with shelter, food, drink, money, clothes, arms, ammunition or means of conveyance, or assisting a person in any way to commit an offence against this Act. Attempts, incitements etc. 12. Any person who attempts to commit any offence against this Act, or solicits or incites or endeavours to persuade, or conspires with another person to commit an offence, or aids or abets or does any act preparatory to the commission of an offence against this Act, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to the same punishment, and to be proceeded against in the same manner as if he had committed the offence.

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