Chamber of Nationalities

Chamber of Nationalities

လူမျိုးစုလွှတ်တော်

Lumyozu Hluttaw
Type
Type
History
Founded1952 (1952)
Disbanded1962 (1962)
Preceded byConstituent Assembly of Burma (1947–1948; serving as Provisional Parliament in 1948–1952)
Succeeded byPyithu Hluttaw (1974–1988)
Seats125
Elections
Last election
1960
Meeting place
Government Secretariat, Rangoon

The Chamber of Nationalities (Burmese: လူမျိုးစုလွှတ်တော်) was the upper house of the bicameral Union Parliament of Burma (Myanmar) from 1952[1][a][2] to 1962. Under the 1947 Constitution, bills initiated and passed by the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, were to be sent to the Chamber of Nationalities for review and revision. The Chamber of Nationalities was primarily formed to give minorities within Burma some political power in the union government. Before the first session of the bicameral Union Parliament was elected and assembled according to the constitution, the Constituent Assembly of Burma served as the Provisional Parliament.[3]

It consisted of 125 seats, with the constitution providing for specified numbers of representatives from all states and divisions. 25 seats were allotted to Shan State, 12 to Kachin State, 8 seats to Special Division of the Chins (now Chin State), 3 seats to Karenni State (now Kayah State), 24 to ethnic Karens, and 53 to all other territories (including divisions), including 4 seats reserved for the Anglo-Burmese community. The parliament was abolished after Ne Win suspended the 1947 Constitution following a military coup on 3 March 1962.[4]

A single-party unicameral People's Assembly replaced the parliament in 1974, under a new Constitution that was approved in a 1973 referendum, and adopted on 3 January 1974.

Speakers of the Chamber of Nationalities

Name Took office Left office Notes
Sao Shwe Thaik March 1952[4] 1960 [5]
Sao Hkun Kyi 11 April 1960[4] March 1962 [6][7]

Notes

  1. ↑ Act of Salaries of the Speakers and Deputy Speakers of the Chamber of Nationalities and the Speakers and Deputy Speakers of the Chamber of Deputies of the Union Parliament, 1952. [Act No. I of 1952]
    1. This Act shall come into force on the day of the first session of the first Parliament convened under Chapter 6 of the Constitution.
    ...
    5. The Constituent Assembly (Salaries of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker) Act, 1948 (Act No. III of 1948) is repealed.
    Effective date shown on the Myanmar Law Information System: 3.3.1952

References

  1. ↑ "ဝန်ကြီးတွေ ဆေးတံသောက်တဲ့လွှတ်တော်၊ ဘက်ဂျက်နဲ့ အာဏာလုပွဲ". BBC (in Burmese). ၁၉၅၂ မှာ ပေါ်လာတဲ့ လူမျိုးစုနဲ့ ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်နှစ်ရပ်ပေါင်းကို ပြည်ထောင်စုပါလီမန်အဖြစ် သတ်မှတ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။
  2. ↑ ၁၉၅၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုပါလီမန်ဆိုင်ရာ လူမျိုးစုလွှတ်တော်နာယကနှင့် ဒုတိယနာယက၊ ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်ဥက္ကဋ္ဌနှင့် ဒုတိယဥက္ကဋ္ဌတို့၏ လစာငွေများအက်ဥပဒေ။ [၁၉၅၂ ခုနှစ်၊ အက်ဥပဒေအမှတ် ၁။] [Act of Salaries of the Speakers and Deputy Speakers of the Chamber of Nationalities and the Speakers and Deputy Speakers of the Chamber of Deputies of the Union Parliament, 1952. [Act No. I of 1952]] (in Burmese). Union Parliament. 24 March 1952.
  3. ↑ ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ဖွဲ့စည်းအုပ်ချုပ်ပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ [THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNION OF BURMA] (in Burmese). Constituent Assembly of Burma. 24 September 1947. [English translation:https://www.mlis.gov.mm/mLsView.do?lawordSn=8315]
  4. 1 2 3 "World Parliaments in Brief".
  5. ↑ Houtman, Gustaaf (1990). Traditions of Buddhist Practice in Burma. School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. p. 275.
  6. ↑ "Who's who in Burma 1961". People's Literature Committee and House. August 1, 1961 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ "Political Handbook and Atlas of the World". Harper & Row [etc.] for Council on Foreign Relations. January 4, 1961 – via Google Books.
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