Ministry of Legal Affairs (Myanmar)

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.[1] After the caretaker government was formed in 2021, the Union Attorney General's Office was reorganized into a ministry on 30 August 2021.[2][3][4]

Ministry of Legal Affairs
ဥပဒေရေးရာ ဝန်ကြီးဌာန
seal of MOLA
Agency overview
Formed30 August 2021 (2021-08-30)
TypeMinistry
JurisdictionGovernment of Myanmar
HeadquartersOffice No (25), Naypyidaw
Minister responsible
  • Thida Oo, Union Minister and Attorney General
Deputy Minister responsible
  • San Lwin, Deputy Minister and Deputy Attorney General
Websitewww.oag.gov.mm

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 President Deputy Minister
Took Office Left Office Days
1 Thida Oo 30 August 2021 Incumbent 247 Independent Myint Swe (acting) San Lwin
also serves as Attornery General

Deputy Ministers
  • San Lwin (30.8.2021 - Incumbent)[5]

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".
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