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Title: The Legal Aid Law - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 10/2016 - ဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာအထောက်အကူပေးရေးဥပဒေ (Burmese မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Description: Provisional English title.
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw via Pyithu Hluttaw Website
Date of publication: 2016-01-18
Date of entry/update: 2016-01-28
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Law On Arbitration Decisions - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 5/2016 - အနုညာတစီရင်ဆုံးဖြတ်ခြင်းဥပဒေ (Burmese မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Description: Provisional English title.
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw via Pyithu Hluttaw Website
Date of publication: 2016-01-05
Date of entry/update: 2016-01-26
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Law Amending the Myanmar Evidence Act - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 73/2015 - သက်သေခံအက်ဥပဒေကိုပြင်ဆင်သည့်ဥပဒေ
Description: Provisional English title.
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw via Pyithu Hluttaw Website
Date of publication: 2015-12-24
Date of entry/update: 2016-01-07
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Second Amendment of the Union Law on Legal Proceedings - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 46/2015 - ပြည်ထောင်စုတရားစီရင်ရေးဥပဒေ တတိယအကြိမ်ပြင်ဆင်
Description: Provisional English title.
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw via Myanmar Alin
Date of publication: 2015-07-28
Date of entry/update: 2015-08-29
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Law on the commission for translating laws- Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 25/2015 - ဥပဒေဘာသာပြန်ကော်မရှင်ဥပဒေ
Description: Provisional English title.
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw via Pyithu Hluttaw Website
Date of publication: 2015-04-09
Date of entry/update: 2015-04-27
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Law Amending the Constitutional Court Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 46/2014) - နိုင်ငံတော်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာခုံရုံး ဥပဒေကို ဒုတိ?
Description: Provisional English title... A Pyithu Hluttaw website link is used as an alternate link to this law but it does not always work. နိုင်ငံတော်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာခုံရုံးဥပဒေကို ဒုတိယအကြိမ်ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ဥပဒေ
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw via Pyithu Hluttaw Website
Date of publication: 2014-11-05
Date of entry/update: 2015-02-24
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Bill Amending the 1954 National [judicial?] Titles Law (Burmese မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Description: Provisional/unofficial title ၁၉၅၄ခုနှစ် နိုင်ငံတော်အထိမ်းအမှတ်များ(ဆင်ယင်ပြသမှုကန့်သတ်ရေး)အက်ဥပဒေကို ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ဥပဒေကြမ်း
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw via "Myanmar Alin" of 2014-10-17
Date of publication: 2014-10-17
Date of entry/update: 2014-10-20
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Law Amending The Code of Civil Procedure - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 29/2014 - တရားမကျင့်ထုံးဥပဒေကိုပြင်ဆင်သည်ဥပဒေ
Description: Provisional English title.
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication: 2014-07-03
Date of entry/update: 2014-09-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Law Amending the Limitation Act - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 36/2014 - ကာလစည်းကမ်းသတ်အက်ဥပဒေကို ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ဥပဒေ
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication: 2014-07-31
Date of entry/update: 2014-09-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Law Repealing the Whipping Act - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 27/2014 - ကြိမ်ဒဏ်ပေးခြင်းအက်ဥပဒေကို ရုပ်သိမ်းသည့်ဥပဒေ
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication: 2014-07-01
Date of entry/update: 2014-09-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Law Amending the Judiciary Law - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 35/2014 - ပြည်ထောင်စုတရားစီရင်ရေးကိုပြင်ဆင်သည့်ဥပဒေ
Description: This is a provisional English title, not an official one.
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication: 2014-07-30
Date of entry/update: 2014-09-19
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Bill on detention... ကျုးလွန်တတ်သူများ ခြေချုပ်နှင့်ခံဝန် ပြင်ဆင်အက်ဥပဒေ
Description: Provisional English title. This bill... has to do with recidivists, detaining and taking action against them.
Source/publisher: President?s Office
Date of publication: 2014-07-20
Date of entry/update: 2014-07-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Law on the Application for Writs - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law 24/2014 - စာချွန်တော်အမိန့်လျှောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေ
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication: 2014-06-05
Date of entry/update: 2014-06-26
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Contempt of Courts Law - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 17/2013 (English)
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication: 2013-07-29
Date of entry/update: 2014-06-05
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
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Title: Law Amending the Court Fees Act - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 14 - ရုံးခွန်အက်ဥပဒေကိုပြင်ဆင်သည့်ဥပဒေ
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication: 2014-03-19
Date of entry/update: 2014-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law 13/2013 - အထူးကာလစည်းကမ်းသတ်နှင့်အတိုးကန့်သတ်ရေးအက်ဥပဒေရုတ်သိမ်းသည့်ဥပဒေ
Description: usurer
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication: 2013-06-28
Date of entry/update: 2013-12-01
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law 17/2013 Contempt of Courts Law - တရားရုံးများကို မထီမဲ့မြင်ပြုမှုဥပဒေ
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication: 2013-07-29
Date of entry/update: 2013-12-01
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Law Amending the Judiciary Law - Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law 30/2013 - ပြည်ထောင်စုတရားစီရင်ရေး ပြင်ဆင်ဥပဒေ
Description: judiciary
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication: 2013-10-08
Date of entry/update: 2013-11-30
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: THE ARBITRATION (PROTOCOL AND CONVENTION) ACT. [India Act VI, 1937.]
Source/publisher: Government of the Union of Burma via "The Burma Code" Vol.XI
Date of publication: 1939-01-19
Date of entry/update: 2013-08-24
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: THE ARBITRATION ACT, 1944
Description: THE ARBITRATION ACT, 1944 [Burma Act IV, 1944.] (1st March, 1946.) Whereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to arbitration in [the Union Burma] It is hereby enacted as follows :—
Source/publisher: Government of the Union of Burma via "The Burma Code" Vol. XI (pp 373-389)
Date of publication: 1946-03-01
Date of entry/update: 2013-08-23
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: The Special Limitation Law - SLORC Law No. 9/88 - အထူးကာလစည်းကမ်းသတ်ဥပဒေ
Source/publisher: State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)
Date of publication: 1988-11-07
Date of entry/update: 2013-08-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: The Attorney General Law - SLORC Law No. 3/88 - ၁၉၈၈ ခုနှစ်၊ နိုင်ငံတော်ငြိမ်ဝပ်ပိပြားမှုတည်ဆောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ ရှေ့နေဥပဒေ
Description: The State Law and Order Restoration Council - The Attorney-General Law - (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No.3/88) - The 1st Waning Day of Tawthalin, 1350 M.E. (26th September, 1988)
Source/publisher: State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)
Date of publication: 1988-09-26
Date of entry/update: 2013-08-21
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: The Judiciary Law - SLORC Law No. 2/88 - ၁၉၈၈ခုနှစ် န.ဝ.တ တရားစီရင်ရေးဥပဒေ
Description: The State Law and Order Restoration Council - The Judiciary Law - (State Law and Restoration Law No. 2/88) - September 26th, 1988)
Source/publisher: State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)
Date of publication: 1988-09-26
Date of entry/update: 2013-08-21
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: The Special Limitation Law - SLORC Law No. 9/88 (English)
Description: The State Law and Order Restoration Council - The Special Limitation Law - (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 9/88)- The 13th Waning Day of Thadingyut, 1350 M.E (7th November, 1988)
Source/publisher: State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)
Date of publication: 1988-11-07
Date of entry/update: 2013-06-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: The Attorney General Law - SLORC Law No. 3/88 (English)
Description: The State Law and Order Restoration Council - The Attorney-General Law - (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No.3/88) - The 1st Waning Day of Tawthalin, 1350 M.E. (26th September, 1988)
Source/publisher: State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)
Date of publication: 1988-09-28
Date of entry/update: 2013-06-15
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: The Judiciary Law - SLORC Law No. 2/88 (English)
Description: The State Law and Order Restoration Council - The Judiciary Law - (State Law and Restoration Law No. 2/88) - September 26th, 1988)
Source/publisher: State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)
Date of publication: 1988-09-26
Date of entry/update: 2013-06-15
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
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Title: The Law Amending the Court Fees Act - SLORC Law No. 6/90 (English)
Source/publisher: State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) via The Burma Lawyers? Council
Date of publication: 1990-03-30
Date of entry/update: 2013-06-13
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
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Title: The Law Amending the Code of Civil Procedure - SPDC Law No. 6/2000 (English)
Source/publisher: State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) via The Burma Lawyers? Council
Date of publication: 2000-07-12
Date of entry/update: 2013-06-11
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 59.25 KB
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Title: The Judiciary Law, 2000 - SPDC Law No. 5/2000 (English
Source/publisher: State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) via The Burma Lawyers? Council
Date of publication: 2000-06-27
Date of entry/update: 2013-06-10
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
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Title: The Law Amending the Judiciary Law, 2000 - SPDC Law No. 2/2003 (English)
Description: The Union of Myanmar... The State Peace and Development Council... The Law Amending the Judiciary Law, 2000... (The State Peace and Development Council Law No. 2/2003)... The 1st Waxing Day of Tabodwe, 1364 ME (2nd February 2003
Source/publisher: State Peace and Development Council
Date of publication: 2003-02-02
Date of entry/update: 2013-06-10
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
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Title: The Evidence Act
Description: Sections: 1. Application of Act.... 2. * * * *... 3. Interpretation clause... 4. ?May presume.?... ? Shall presume. ? ? Conclusive proof. *....."The Evidence Act of 1872 sets out the rules of evidence in Myanmar. The Evidence Act establishes rules similar in form and content to those in other former British colonies in the region and in Britain today. 6 The Evidence Act is applicable to all judicial proceedings before any court 7 and to all judges or other persons legally authorized to hear evidence. 8 However, the Evidence Act does not apply to arbitrations..." (Alec Christie)
Source/publisher: Government of the Union of Myanmar via "The Burma Code" (Myanmar Code), Vol. XII
Date of publication: 1872-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2013-04-30
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 1.56 MB
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Title: Burma/Myanmar Code of Civil Procedure
Description: Scanned from "The Burma Code" Vol. XII. 1979 edition
Source/publisher: Government of the Union of Burma via "The Burma Code" Vol. XII (1979 Edition)
Date of publication: 1909-01-01
Date of entry/update: 2012-12-25
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 8.33 MB
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Title: The Courts Manual (4th Edition, 1999) (English/ Burmese မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Description: TABLE OF CONTENTS (157K)... PART I - LEGAL PRACTIONERS AND PETITION WRITERS (1.8MB)... PART II - INSTRUCTIONS AND ORDERS RELATING TO BOTH CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (2.9MB)... PART III - CIVIL PROCEDURE (4MB)... PART IV - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (6.8MB)... APPENDICES (1.3MB)... THE COURTS MANUAL - ENGLISH (17MB) Full text... THE COURTS MANUAL ? ENGLISH AND BURMESE (26MB) Full text
Source/publisher: Myanmar Supreme Court
Date of publication: 1999-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2012-12-15
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Bill Amending the Code of Civil Procedure - တရားမကျင့်ထုံးဥပဒေကိုပြင်ဆင်သည့် ဥပဒေကြမ်း
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Alin"
Date of publication: 2012-07-09
Date of entry/update: 2012-09-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Bill Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure / ရာဇဝတ်ကျင့်ထုံး ဥပဒေကို ပြင်ဆင်သည့် ဥပဒေကြမ်း (Burmese မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Alin"
Date of publication: 2012-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2012-09-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Format : pdf
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Title: Bill Amending the Contempt of Court Act - တရားရုံးများမထီမဲ့မြင်ပြုမှုဥပဒေကြမ်း
Description: Revoking the Contempt of Courts Act, 1926 by this Law... the Contempt of Courts Act, 1926 ကို ဤဥပဒေ ဖြင့် ရုပ်သိမ်းလိုက်သည်...
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Alin"
Date of publication: 2012-07-09
Date of entry/update: 2012-09-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Format : pdf
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Title: Bill Amending the Limitation Act - ကာလစည်းကမ်းသတ်အက်ဥပဒေကို ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ဥပဒေကြမ်း
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Alin"
Date of publication: 2012-07-09
Date of entry/update: 2012-09-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Format : pdf
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Title: Bill Amending the Penal Code - ရာဇသတ်ကြီးဥပဒေကို ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ဥပဒေ (Burmese မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Alin"
Date of publication: 2012-07-09
Date of entry/update: 2012-09-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: The Contempt of Courts Act
Source/publisher: "The Burma Code" Vol. I (Govt. of the Union of Burma)
Date of publication: 1926-05-01
Date of entry/update: 2009-03-17
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
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Title: The Penal Code (English)
Description: Table of contents followed by all 511 articles, in one big document... (INDIA ACT XLV. 1860) (1st May. 1861) The pdf version is based on the BLC version. A spell-check was run on the BLC version and checked against a hard-copy version of the "Myanmar Code". The hard-copy version was taken as authoritative and the text amended accordingly. Some obvious mistakes exist in the hard-copy original. These are left as-is, followed by "[sic. "xxxx" is presumably intended"]". The BLC version does not contain all the footnotes which exist in the hard-copy version. These will be added in a Corr.2
Source/publisher: Government of Burma via Burma Lawyers? Council via Online Burma/Myanmar Library
Date of publication: 1861-05-01
Date of entry/update: 2006-03-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 784.6 KB
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Title: The Law Amending the Attorney General Law, 2001 - SPDC Law No. 3/2003 (English))
Description: The Union of Myanmar... The State Peace and Development Council... The Law Amending the Attorney General Law, 2001 (The State Peace and Development Council Law No. 3/2003) The 1st Waxing Day of Tabodwe, 1364 ME (2nd February 2003)
Source/publisher: SPDC via BLC
Date of publication: 2003-02-02
Date of entry/update: 2005-07-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf pdf
Size: 54.99 KB 51.93 KB
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Title: The Code of Criminal Procedure
Source/publisher: Government of the Union of Burma via "The Burma Code" Vol. VIII, via Burma Lawyers? Council
Date of publication: 1898-07-01
Date of entry/update: 2005-06-24
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: The Attorney General Law, 2001 - SPDC Law No. 1/2001 (English)
Source/publisher: State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) via The Burma Lawyers? Council
Date of publication: 2001-02-27
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 64.82 KB
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