Attorney General of Myanmar

The Union Attorney General (Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စုရှေ့နေချုပ်) is the Government of Myanmar's chief legal advisor, and also appears on behalf of the Burmese government in civil and criminal cases.[1] The current Attorney General is Thida Oo who is also serves as Union Minister for Legal Affairs.[2][3]

Union Attorney General
ပြည်ထောင်စုရှေ့နေချုပ်
Incumbent
Dr Thida Oo
since 2 February 2021
Office of the Union Attorney General
NominatorPresident of Myanmar
Inaugural holderChan Htoon
Formation1948
DeputyDeputy Union Attorney General
Websitewww.oag.gov.mm

History

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The Office of the Attorney General was established in 1948 under the 1947 Constitution of Myanmar and 1948 Attorney General of the Union Act.[1] From 1974 through 1988, the post was called the Chairman of the Council of People's Attorney.[4] The present law, the 2010 Attorney General of the Union Law was promulgated on 28 October 2010.[1] The Union Attorney General is appointed by the President of Myanmar.[1] The Union Attorney General leads the Office of the Union Attorney General in Naypyidaw.[5] After the Provisional Government was formed in 2021, the Union Attorney General's Office was reorganized into a ministry on 30 August 2021 and Attorney General also serves as union minister of Legal Affairs.[6][2]

List of attorneys general of Myanmar

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No. Name Took office Left office
# Chan Htoon 4 January 1948 30 June 1953
# Chun Phoung (a) U Ohn Khin 1 July 1953 31 October 1953
# Chan Tun Aung 1 November 1953 31 December 1953
# Chan Htoon 1 January 1954 1 October 1954
# Chan Tun Aung 2 October 1954 16 March 1955
# Chun Phoung (a) U Ohn Khin 17 March 1955 28 February 1957
# Ba Han 1 March 1957 28 October 1958
# Ba Sein 29 October 1958 4 April 1960
# Yan Aung 5 April 1960 21 March 1961
# Ba Swe 1 April 1961 7 March 1962
# Ba Sein 8 March 1962 25 September 1971
# Hla Aung 25 September 1971 4 March 1974
# Maung Maung Kyaw Win 4 March 1974 8 November 1981
# Myint Maung 9 November 1981 26 July 1988
# Maung Maung 27 July 1988 19 August 1988
# Thaung Tin 19 August 1988 18 September 1988
# Tha Tun 27 September 1988 9 May 2003
# Aye Maung 22 July 2003 30 March 2011
# Tun Shin 30 March 2011 30 March 2016
# Htun Htun Oo 5 April 2016 2 February 2021
# Dr Thida Oo 2 February 2021 present

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "About OAG". Union Attorney General’s Office. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  2. ^ a b "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၇ / ၂၀၂၁".
  3. ^ "Union Attorney-General Office reformed as Legal Affairs Ministry".
  4. ^ "List of Attorneys General". Union Attorney General’s Office. 2013. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  5. ^ Myo Thant (18 February 2011). "Tin Aye is EC chairman; Tun Shin nominated For Atty-Gen". Mizzima. Archived from the original on May 31, 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  6. ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၆ / ၂၀၂၁".
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