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1970
Nations Unies — Recueil des Traités
19
Sections of Act inserted
in Constitution.
- 3. The Constitution shall be amended as shown in the First Schedule to this Act, by inserting as Articles of the Constitution in accordance with that Schedule the sections of this Act specified in the second column, and those sections shall be read and have effect accordingly :
- Provided that any Article so inserted shall have effect subject to the transitional provisions contained in Part IV of this Act.
PART II
THE STATES OF THE FEDERATION
The name, States and
territories of
the Federation.
(Article 1).
- 4.---(1) The Federation shall be known, in Malay and in English, by the name Malaysia.
- (2) The States of the Federation shall be—
- (a) the States of Malaya, namely, Johore, Kedah, Kelantan, Malacca, Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak, Perlis, Selangor and Trengganu; and
- (b) the Borneo States, namely, Sabah and Sarawak; and
- (c) the State of Singapore.
- (3) The territories of each of the States mentioned in Clause (2) are the territories comprised therein immediately before Malaysia Day.
PART II
GENERAL CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
TITLE I
GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO FEDERAL AND STATE INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 1—Preliminary
Interpretation of
constitutional
terms.
- 5. In Article 160 of the Constitution, in Clause (2), there shall be inserted (in the places required by the alphabetical order and in substitution for the existing definition, if any, of the same term) the following definitions :—
- "Attorney-General" means the Attorney-General of the Federation;
- "Chief Minister" and "Mentri Besar" both mean the president, by whatever style known, of the Executive Council in a State (and in particular "Chief Minister" includes the Prime Minister in Singapore);
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