Perlembagaan Persekutuan
(1) The following provisions of this section shall have effect with
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- Malaysia
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- 19
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- English
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- in force
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Official source19. (1) The following provisions of this section shall have effect with
respect to the amendment of the Constitution of this State.
(2) The provisions affecting succession to the throne and the position
of the Ruling Chiefs and similar Malay customary dignitaries may not be
amended by the State Legislature.
(3) Any other provisions may, subject to the following provisions of this
section, be amended by an Enactment of the State Legislature but may not be
amended by any other means.
(4) A Bill for making an amendment to the said Constitution (other than
an amendment excepted from the provisions of this subsection) shall not be
passed by the Legislative Assembly unless it has been supported on Second
and Third Readings by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the total number
of members thereof.
(5) The following amendments are excepted from the provisions of
subsection (4), that is to say:
(a) any amendment consequential on such a law as is mentioned in section
and
(aa) any amendment to the definition of the territory of the State which is
made in consequence of the passing of a law altering the boundaries
of the State under Article 2 of the Federal Constitution to which
the State Legislative Assembly and the Conference of Rulers have
consented under the said Article; and
(b) any amendment the effect of which is to bring the Constitution
of this State into accord with any of the provisions of the said
Schedule, but only if it is made after the Legislative Assembly has
been elected in accordance with section 4 of that Schedule.
(6) This section does not invalidate any provision of the Constitution of
this State requiring the consent of any body of persons to any amendment
affecting—
(a) the appointment and attributes of an heir or heirs to the throne, of
the Ruler’s Consort or of the Regent or Members of the Council
of Regency of the State;
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