Brunei Darussalam

Population Statistics

429,646

Total Population

64,447

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

11 April 2016

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Constitution of Brunei Darussalam (1959, last amended 2008)

Updated: June 2015

Article 30 states:

No person shall be qualified to be a Member of the Legislative Council who…

  • (b) is a person declared to be of unsound mind under any law in force in Brunei Darussalem…

 

Article 31, section 4 states:

His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan or the Legislative Council may, for such reason as may appear to His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan or that Council to be good and sufficient, declare any Member of that Council to be incapable of discharging his functions as a Member of that Council, and thereupon, such Member shall not sit in or take part in the proceedings of that Council until he is declared by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan or that Council to again be capable of discharging his functions. Provided that where the Member is declared by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan to be incapable of discharging his functions, the Legislative Council shall not have the power to declare such Member to be again capable of discharging his functions without the prior approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan.

 

Article 31, section 5 states:

His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan or the Legislative Council may, for such reason as may appear to His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan or that Council to be good and sufficient, suspend any Member, from the exercise of his functions and his rights and privileges, as a Member of that Council, and thereupon, such Member shall not sit in or take part in the proceedings of that Council until the suspension is ended by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan or that Council. Provided that where the Member is suspended by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, the Legislative Council shall not have the power to end the suspension of such Member without the prior approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Brunei Darussalam (1959, last amended 2008)