Electronic Transactions Act, liability of network service providers for third-party material
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In force since 1 May 2001.
A linking and framing rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What this law does
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Section 10(1) shields a network service provider from civil or criminal liability under any rule of law for third-party material in the form of electronic records to which it merely provides access, where that liability is founded on the making, publication, dissemination, or distribution of the material or a statement in it, or on an infringement of rights subsisting in the material.
Section 10(3) defines 'providing access' to mean supplying the necessary technical means by which the material may be accessed, including automatic and temporary storage for that purpose, and defines a 'third party' as a person over whom the provider has no effective control. Section 10(2) preserves any liability founded on contract, on a licensing or regulatory regime, or on a court or statutory order to remove, block, or deny access to material.
No reported Brunei decision has applied section 10 to a news aggregator that reproduces, frames, or links to a publisher's headlines and snippets rather than to a conventional access provider, and no Brunei statute or case addresses whether a hyperlink is itself a communication to the public or whether framing or inline display changes that answer.
What it reaches
Instrument type
statute
Categories
Linking framing
When LexLint raises it
aggregates_contentcrawls_web
Read the law
Electronic Transactions Act (Cap. 196, Revised Edition 2008)
official consolidated Act text, Attorney General's Chambers of Brunei Darussalam (agc.gov.bn), an Internet Archive capture