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