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

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
No. Name Took office Left office
#Chan Htoon4 January 194830 June 1953
#Chun Phoung (a) U Ohn Khin1 July 195331 October 1953
#Chan Tun Aung1 November 195331 December 1953
#Chan Htoon1 January 19541 October 1954
#Chan Tun Aung2 October 195416 March 1955
#Chun Phoung (a) U Ohn Khin17 March 195528 February 1957
#Ba Han1 March 195728 October 1958
#Ba Sein29 October 19584 April 1960
#Yan Aung5 April 196021 March 1961
#Ba Swe1 April 19617 March 1962
#Ba Sein8 March 196225 September 1971
#Hla Aung25 September 19714 March 1974
#Maung Maung Kyaw Win4 March 19748 November 1981
#Myint Maung9 November 198126 July 1988
#Maung Maung27 July 198819 August 1988
#Thaung Tin19 August 198818 September 1988
#Tha Tun27 September 19889 May 2003
#Aye Maung22 July 200330 March 2011
#Tun Shin30 March 201130 March 2016
#Htun Htun Oo5 April 20162 February 2021
#Dr Thida Oo2 February 2021present

See also

References
  1. "About OAG". Union Attorney General’s Office. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  2. "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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