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The State Law and Order Restoration Council
The Law Amending the Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law
(The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No.10/91)
The 14th Waning Day of First Waso, 1353 M.E.
(10th July, 1991)

The State Law and Order Restoration Council hereby enacts the following Law:-

1. This Law shall be called the law Amending the Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law.

2. This Law shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from 31st May, 1989, the date on which the Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law was enacted.

3. The following shall be inserted as sub-sections (j) and (k) in Section 2 of the Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law:

(j) being convicted of an offence relating to law and order or an offence relating to moral turpitude as determined and declared from time to time by the State Law and Order Restoration Council;

(k) if convicted of any offence not included in the declaration under subsection (j), such offence being decided by the State Law and Order Restoration Council as an offence relating to law and order or an offence relating to moral turpitude.

4. The following shall be inserted as Sections 80-A, 80-B, 80-C and 80-0 in the Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law:-

80-A. A person who, having been convicted of high treason or an offence liable to sentence of death or transportation for life has been declared by the Commission as having no right to continue to be a Hluttaw representative shall have no right to stand for election as a Hluttaw candidate in elections to be held in future.

80-B. A person who, having been convicted of any other offence with
the exception of offences under Section 80-A has been declared by the Commission as having no right to continue to be a Hluttaw representative shall have no right to stand for election as a Hluttaw candidate in elections to be held within 10 years from the date of being so declared.

80-C. A person whose election was a Hluttaw representative has been decided by the Election Tribunal to be void and who has been notified by the Government, or any Hluttaw representative who, having failed to submit election expenses as prescribed has been decided by the Election Tribunal as disqualified and who has been declared as such by the Commission, or an election agent shall have no right to stand for election as a Hluttaw candidate in elections to he held within 10 years from the date of being so declared.

80-D. A Hluttaw candidate who, having failed to get elected has been declared by the Commission as disqualified under this Law or under Rules made hereunder, or an election agent shall have no right to stand for election as a Hluttaw candidate in elections to he held within 5 years from the date of being so declared.

Sd./Saw Maung
Senior General
Chairman
The State Law and Order Restoration Council

 

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