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1) Laws of burma (English)  
  Burma Code Volumes (I-XII) (1818-1954)  
  Parliament Acts (1955-1961)  
  Revolutionary Council Laws (1962-1974)  
  Myanmar Law (1988-2006)  
  The Code of Criminal Procedure  
  The Penal Code  
 
2) Laws of burma (Burmese)
  Burma Code Volumes (I-XII) (1818-1954)  
  Parliament Acts (1955-1961)  
  Revolutionary Council Laws (1962-1974)  
  People Parliamentary Act (1974-1988)  
  Myanmar Law (1988-2006)  
 
3) Suppressive Law
    (1) State Protection Law, 1975  
 
1975 "The Law to safeguard the State against the dangers of those desiring to cause subversive acts" also known as "State Protection Law was amended in August 1991 and increased to maximun permissible term of imprisonment from three to five years. BLC published an analysis of this Broadest law in December 2001.
  (2) Unlawful Association Act  
  (3) The Printers and Publishers Registration Law,1962  
 
S.3 Subsection (2) , S.4 Subsection (1), S.5 Subsection (1 and 2), S.12 and S.21 were amended by Law No. 1/71 on (5/2/1971). S.16, S.18, S.17, S.19 and S.20 were amended by Law No. 16/89 on the (16/8/1989).
  (4) Law Amending The Printers and Publishers Registration Law,1962 (SLORC Law No. 16/89)  
 
According to this law Anyone who break this law will get imprisonment up to seven years and/or fines of up to 30,000 Kyats.
  (5) Emergency Provision Act, 1950  
 
It allows anyone who causes or intend to distrupt the morality or the behavior of a group of people or the general public, or to distrupt the security or the reconstruction of stability of the Union shall be sentenced to seven years in prison, a fine or both.
    (6) The Official Secrets Act  
 
It constitutes the offence of "handing over classified state secret documents of national interest to unauthorized person."
  (7) 1985 Video Law  
 
A breach of the law leads to imprisonment for up to three years. Those involved in the making, copying or distribution of even amatuer videos of NLD's rally and western news reports on Burma have been threatened with this law.
 
4) Burmese Law Related Articles and analysis Paper
    (1) BURMA'S STATE PROTECTION LAW
An Analysis of the Broadest Law in the World (PDF)
 
   
5) WORLD LAW DBASE
      (1) WORLD LAW DBASE  

 

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