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

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]

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. 1 2 3 4 "About OAG". Union Attorney General’s Office. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  2. 1 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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