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Burmese ministry responsible for legal affairs
Ministry of Legal Affairs
ဥပဒေရေးရာ ဝန်ကြီးဌာန
seal of MOLA
Agency overview
Formed30 August 2021; 3 years ago (2021-08-30)
Preceding agency
TypeMinistry
JurisdictionGovernment of Myanmar
HeadquartersOffice No (25), Naypyidaw
Minister responsible
  • Thida Oo, Union Minister and Attorney General
Deputy Minister responsible
  • Deputy Minister and Deputy Attorney General
Websitewww.mola.gov.mm

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. After the caretaker government was formed in 2021, the Union Attorney General's Office was reorganized into a ministry on 30 August 2021.

Departments

  • Legislative and Advising Department
  • Legal Advice Department
  • Prosecution Department
  • Administration Department

List of ministers

Union ministers

No. Portrait Name Term of office Political party Appointer
Took office Left office Days
1 Thida Oo 30 August 2021 Incumbent 1225 Independent SAC
also serves as Attornery General

Deputy ministers

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
2 Dr Thein Lin Oo 3 August 2023 Present 1 year, 156 days

Note: Deputy Minister also serves as Deputy Union Attorney General of Myanmar

References

  1. "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၇ / ၂၀၂၁".
  2. "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၆ / ၂၀၂၁".
  3. "Union Attorney-General Office reformed as Legal Affairs Ministry".
  4. "ORDER NO. 176: MINISTRY OF LEGAL AFFAIRS FORMED".
  5. "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၈ / ၂၀၂၁".
  6. "ဒုတိယဝန်ကြီးနှင့် ဒုတိယရှေ့နေချုပ် ခန့်အပ်တာဝန်ပေးခြင်း". Ministry of Information. 4 August 2023.

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