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Drafted
  
15 November 1961

Location
  
London, United Kingdom

Effective
  
16 September 1963

Signed
  
9 July 1963

Sealed
  
31 July 1963

Malaysia Bill

Signatories
  
Government of United KingdomGovernment of MalayaGovernment of North BorneoGovernment of Sarawak, andGovernment of Singapore

The Malaysia Bill is an annex of the Agreement relating to Malaysia between United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Federation of Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore. It gave effect to the Agreement where that the British colonies of North Borneo, Sarawak and the State of Singapore should be federated with the existing States of the Federation of Malaya and the name of the federation should be Malaysia, and the Federal constitution wherewith to amend and adopt the Constitution of the Federation of Malaya so as to provide for the admission of those States. it adopted its present name, the name of the Constitution of the Federation of Malaya should be changed into Constitution of Malaysia.

Contents

Documents

The following is table of contents to the Malaysia Bill.

Schedules

First delimitation of constituencies.

  • First Schedule Insertion of new Articles in Constitution.
  • Second Schedule Section added to Eighth Schedule to Constitution.
  • Third Schedule—Citizenship (amendment of Second Schedule to Constitution).
  • Fourth Schedule—Special Legislative Lists for Borneo States and Singapore.
  • Fifth Schedule—Additions for Borneo States to Tenth Schedule (Grants and assigned revenues) to Constitution.
  • Sixth Schedule—Minor and consequential amendments of Constitution.

    • Definitions

    For the purpose of the federal and state instittutions,

    1. "Attorney-General" means the Attorney-General of the Federation;
    2. "Chief Minister" and "Mentri Besar" both mean the president, by whatever style known, of the Executive Council in a State (and in particular "Chief Minister" includes the Prime Minister in Singapore);
    3. "Executive Council" means the Cabinet or other body, however called, which in the government of a State corresponds, whether or not the members of it are Ministers, to the Cabinet of Ministers in the government of the Federation (and in particular includes the Supreme Council in Sarawak);
    4. "Governor" means the Head of State, by whatever style known, in a State not having a Ruler (and in particular includes the Yang di-Pertua Negara in North Borneo and the Yang di-Pertuan Negara in Singapore);
    5. "Legislative Assembly" means the representative assembly, however called, in the Legislature of a State (and in particular includes the Council Negri in Sarawak), but except in the Eighth Schedule includes also a Legislative Council, however called;

    States of the federation

    Part II enshrines name and number of the basic States of the federation

    1. The name of the federation shall be known, in Malay and in English, by the name Malaysia.
    2. The States of the Federation shall be—
      1. the States of Malaya, namely, Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Malacca, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak, Perlis, Selangor and Terengganu; and
      2. the Borneo States, namely, North Borneo and Sarawak; and
      3. the State of Singapore.

    The Heads of State

    The Chapter 2 of the General Constitutional Arrangements provides that the Governors of North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore shall be members of the Conference of Rulers Its main responsibility is the election of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong except for those purposes for which the Governors of Malacca and Penang are not members and became substituted the words "States not having a Ruler".

    References

    Malaysia Bill Wikipedia
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