(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Article

159. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this Article and to Article 161e, the provisions of this Constitution may be amended by federal law. [Article 159] Federal Constitution 150 (2) (Repealed). (3) A Bill for making any amendment to the Constitution (other than an amendment excepted from the provisions of this Clause) and a Bill for making any amendment to a law passed under Clause (4) of Article 10 shall not be passed in either House of Parliament 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 of that House. (4) The following amendments are excepted from the provisions of Clause (3), that is to say: (a) any amendment to Part III of the Second or to the Sixth or Seventh Schedule; (b) any amendment incidental to or consequential on the exercise of any power to make law conferred on Parliament by any provision of this Constitution other than Articles (bb) subject to Article 161 e any amendment made for or in connection with the admission of any State to the Federation or its association with the States thereof, or any modification made as to the application of this Constitution to a State previously so admitted or associated; (c) any amendment consequential on an amendment made under paragraph (a). (5) A law making an amendment to Clause (4) of Article 10, any law passed thereunder, the provisions of Part III, Article 38, Clause (4) of Article 63, Article 70, Clause (1) of Article 71, Clause (4) of Article 72, Article 152, or 153 or to this Clause shall not be passed without the consent of the Conference of Rulers. (6) In this Article “amendment” includes addition and repeal; and in this Article and in paragraph (a) of Article 2 “State” includes any territory. Operation of transitional provisions of Malaysia Act