Union Parliament

Union Parliament

ပြည်ထောင်စုပါလီမန်

Pyidaungzu Parliman
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
HousesChamber of Nationalities
Chamber of Deputies
History
Founded1952 (1952)
Disbanded1962 (1962)
Preceded byConstituent Assembly of Burma (1947–1948; serving as Provisional Parliament in 1948–1952)
Succeeded byPyithu Hluttaw (1974–1988)
Elections
1960
Last Chamber of Deputies election
1960

The Union Parliament (Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စုပါလီမန်) or simply Parliament (ပါလီမန်) was the bicameral legislature of the Union of Burma from 1952 to 1962, when it was disbanded by the Revolutionary Council of the Union of Burma. It consisted of an upper house, the Chamber of Nationalities and a lower house, the Chamber of Deputies. Before the first Union Parliament was elected and assembled according to the constitution, the Constituent Assembly of Burma [my] served as the Provisional Parliament.

From 1957 to 1963, the Union Parliament was a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

Powers and Responsibilities

The Union Parliament of Burma had the following powers under the 1947 Constitution of Burma:

Notes

  1. ↑ The original 1947 Constitution called it "ပြည်ထောင်စုပါလီမန်" in Burmese and "Union Parliament" in English, but the president of the Constituent Assembly removed the words "ပြည်ထောင်စု" and "Union" using the amending power given to him.
  2. ↑ Act of Salaries of the Speakers and Deputy Speakers of the Chamber of Nationalities and the Speakers and Deputy Speakers of the Chamber of Deputies of the Union Parliament, 1952. [Act No. I of 1952]
    1. This Act shall come into force on the day of the first session of the first Parliament convened under Chapter 6 of the Constitution.
    ...
    5. The Constituent Assembly (Salaries of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker) Act, 1948 (Act No. III of 1948) is repealed.
    Effective date shown on the Myanmar Law Information System: 3.3.1952

References

  1. 1 2 ၁၉၅၂ ခုနှစ်၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုပါလီမန်ဆိုင်ရာ လူမျိုးစုလွှတ်တော်နာယကနှင့် ဒုတိယနာယက၊ ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်ဥက္ကဋ္ဌနှင့် ဒုတိယဥက္ကဋ္ဌတို့၏ လစာငွေများအက်ဥပဒေ။ [၁၉၅၂ ခုနှစ်၊ အက်ဥပဒေအမှတ် ၁။] [Act of Salaries of the Speakers and Deputy Speakers of the Chamber of Nationalities and the Speakers and Deputy Speakers of the Chamber of Deputies of the Union Parliament, 1952. [Act No. I of 1952]] (in Burmese). Union Parliament. 24 March 1952.
  2. ↑ Ministry of President's Office (2 October 2017), "ဖွဲ့စည်းအုပ်ချုပ်ပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေတွင်ပြင်ဆင်ချက်များပြုလုပ်ခဲ့သည့်ဖြစ်စဉ်အကျဉ်းချုပ်" [Summary of how amendments were made to the Constitution] (PDF), Constitution of the Union of Burma (1947), retrieved 3 September 2026
  3. ↑ "ဝန်ကြီးတွေ ဆေးတံသောက်တဲ့လွှတ်တော်၊ ဘက်ဂျက်နဲ့ အာဏာလုပွဲ". BBC (in Burmese). ၁၉၅၂ မှာ ပေါ်လာတဲ့ လူမျိုးစုနဲ့ ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်နှစ်ရပ်ပေါင်းကို ပြည်ထောင်စုပါလီမန်အဖြစ် သတ်မှတ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။
  4. ↑ ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ဖွဲ့စည်းအုပ်ချုပ်ပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ [THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNION OF BURMA] (in Burmese). Constituent Assembly of Burma. 24 September 1947. [English translation:https://www.mlis.gov.mm/mLsView.do?lawordSn=8315]
  5. ↑ Soe Than Lynn (26 March 2012). "Pyidaungsu Hluttaw to join International Parliamentary Union". Myanmar Times. Archived from the original on 27 June 2013. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  6. ↑ "Constitutional History of Myanmar". Constitution.Net.
  7. ↑ "1947 Constitution of the Union of Burma" (PDF). Asian Legal Information Institute (ALII).