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On 13 July 1976, all the Sabah and Sarawak MPs supported the Malaysian parliament bill which downgraded both the states from being equal partners to Malaya as a whole to one of the 13 states in the federation by amending Article 1(2) of the Federal constitution. [8] On 27 August 1976, Malaysia Act Constitution (Amendment) Act 1976 was passed ...
The Sarawak Government is an authority governing Sarawak, one of the Borneo states of Malaysia, and is based in Kuching, the state capital.The state government adheres to and is created by both the Federal Constitution of Malaysia, the supreme law of Malaysia, and the Constitution of the State of Sarawak, the supreme law of the State.
6 June – Ten passengers, including Sabah chief minister and former state Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor), Tun Fuad Stephens, and one crew were killed in a plane crashes 1976 near Kota Kinabalu. Tun Fuad Stephens' body was interred at State Mausoleum near Sabah State Mosque , Kota Kinabalu .
[127] [128] In 1976, another amendment was made to placed both Sabah and Sarawak as "negeri" by dropping the words like "the States of Malaya, namely" and "the Borneo States, namely" from the original definition of the States of the Federation of Malaysia where it receive two-thirds majority vote from the Parliament including the support from ...
When Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore joined Malaya to form Malaysia in 1963, the Malaysia Act was passed in Parliament to amend the Constitution to provide for the name change and the inclusion of the three new states. 6th: Amend articles 9, 26, 35, 45, 57, 62, 160 Insert articles 43B, 43C Amend schedule 8: Act 19/1964 Constitution (Amendment) Act ...
Law Reform (Eradication of Illicit Samsu) Act 1976: 165 In force Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976: 164 In force Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 2000: 601 In force Legal Aid Act 1971: 26 In force Legal Profession Act 1976: 166 In force Legislature of Sarawak (Application of Monies Borrowed from the Federation) Act 1968: 779 ...
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, [2] and the Federal constitution wherewith to amend and adopt the Constitution of the Federation of Malaya ...
The 1941 constitution of Sarawak is the first known written constitution in the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo.Written in the English language, the constitution was proclaimed by the third White Rajah of Sarawak, Charles Vyner Brooke on 24 September 1941, which ends the century of sole sovereignty of Brooke's rule and for the people of Sarawak to their own constitutional government.