Ministry of Legal Affairs (Burmese: ဥပဒေရေးရာဝန်ကြီးဌာန) serves as the Government of Myanmar's main legal advisory body. The Office is led by the Union Minister Thida Oo who is also serves as Attorney General.[1] After the caretaker government was formed in 2021, the Union Attorney General's Office was reorganized into a ministry on 30 August 2021.[2][3][4]
| ဥပဒေရေးရာ ဝန်ကြီးဌာန | |
 seal of MOLA | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 30 August 2021 |
| Preceding agency | |
| Type | Ministry |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Myanmar |
| Headquarters | Office No (25), Naypyidaw |
| Minister responsible |
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| Deputy Minister responsible |
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| Website | www |
Departments edit
- Legislative and Advising Department
- Legal Advice Department
- Prosecution Department
- Administration Department
List of ministers edit
Union ministers edit
| No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Appointer | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Days | |||||
| 1 | Thida Oo | 30 August 2021 | Incumbent | 970 | Independent | SAC | |
| also serves as Attornery General | |||||||
Deputy ministers edit
| Name | Took Office | Left Office | Period | Party | Cabinet | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Lwin | 30 August 2021 | 12 October 2022 | 1 year, 41 days | Independent | Min Aung Hlaing | [5] |
| 2 | Dr Thein Lin Oo | 3 August 2023 | Present | 267 days | [6] |
Note: Deputy Minister also serves as Deputy Union Attorney General of Myanmar
References edit
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၇ / ၂၀၂၁".
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၆ / ၂၀၂၁".
- ^ "Union Attorney-General Office reformed as Legal Affairs Ministry".
- ^ "ORDER NO. 176: MINISTRY OF LEGAL AFFAIRS FORMED".
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၈ / ၂၀၂၁".
- ^ "ဒုတိယဝန်ကြီးနှင့် ဒုတိယရှေ့နေချုပ် ခန့်အပ်တာဝန်ပေးခြင်း". Ministry of Information. 4 August 2023.