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Health Officer and the Public Health Oversight Council Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 11/2020) (ကျန်းမာရေးမှူးနှင့် ပြည်သူ့ကျန်းမာရေးကြီးကြပ်ကောင်စီဥပဒေဟု) -

Adoption: 2020-08-06 | MMR-2020-L-112529

Myanmar - - Constitution

Law amending the Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, 2020 (3/2020). -

Adoption: 2020-03-26 | MMR-2020-C-112528

Amends Article 262 of the Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar by replacing sub-section (a)(1) as follows: (1) Appropriate persons with the qualifications specified in the provision in sub-section (a) shall be selected

Also amends Article 344 replacing it with the following: “344. Laws must be enacted to provide for the care of disabled servicemen and the families of dead or fallen servicemen."

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Law on the Rights of the Child, 2019 (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 22/2019) the 7th Waning Day of Waso, 1381 ME (23rd July 2019). (ကလေးသူငယ် အခွင့်အရေးများဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေ) -

Adoption: 2019-07-23 | MMR-2019-L-109405

4. The objectives of this law are as follows:
a. to implement the rights of the child as stated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
b. to promote the best interests of children and to protect the rights of the child according to the law.
c. to put into practice the necessary arrangements including basic health, nutrition and access to educational opportunity for all round development of children.
d. to provide the protection by the State, volunteers and non government organizations to children who are the victims of neglect, abuse, cruelty and exploitation.
e. to strive for the ethical correction of juvenile offenders by proceeding the trial of juvenile crimes separately.
f. to ensure that all children have the relevant rights and protection equally as per the existing law and that there is no discrimination of children.

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Penal Code Amendment Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No 10 of 2019). (ရာဇသတ်ကြီးကို ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ဥပဒေ) -

Adoption: 2019-03-26 | MMR-2019-L-108181

Amends the Penal Code, sections 15 (definition of imprisonment for life) and section 376 (penalty for rape). Rape of a woman over the age of 12 years old is punishable by a prison term of up to 20 years. For conjugal rape, the term of imprisonment is for a maximum of up to two years. For rape of a girl child under the age of 12 years old, the maximum term is life imprisonment.

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Occupational Safety and Health Law, 2019 (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No 8 of 2019). ((၂၀၁၉ ခုနှစ်၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော် ဥပဒေအမှတ် ၈။) လုပ်ငန်းခွင်ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကင်းရှင်းရေးနှင့် ကျန်းမာရေးဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေ) -

Adoption: 2019-03-15 | MMR-2019-L-108180

Chapter I - Name, Effective Date and Definition
Chapter II - Objectives
Chapter III - Prescribing Eligible Industries/Businesses and Removing
Chapter IV - Formation of the Council and its Duties
Chapter V - Registration
Chapter VI - Appointment of Person In-charge for Occupational Safety and Health and Formation of Occupational Safety and Health Committees
Chapter VII - Appointment of Inspection Officers and Powers and Duties of Chief Inspection Officer and Inspection Officers
Chapter VIII - Responsibilities of Employers and Workers
Chapter IX - Responsibilities of Manufacturer, Importer and Seller, Person Who Operates Installation or Dismantling or Person Who Operates Building or Demolition
Chapter X - Informing, Inspecting and Reporting
Chapter XI - Acting as Authorised Examiner or Trainer and Operating Training Centre
Chapter XII - Administrative Actions
Chapter XIII - Appeal
Chapter XIV - Prohibitions
Chapter XVI - Managing Precautionary Actions for Occupational Safety and Health
Chapter XVII - Miscellaneous

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Protection of the Farmer Rights and Enhancement of their Benefits Amendment Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No 36 of 2018). (တောင်သူလယ်သမားအခွင့်အရေးကာကွယ်ရေးနှင့် အကျိုးစီးပွားမြှင့်တင်ရေးဥပဒေကို ဒုတိယအကြိမ်ပြင်ဆင်သည့် ဥပဒေ) -

Adoption: 2018-12-19 | MMR-2018-L-108184

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Maternity and Child Care Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No 34 of 2018). (၂၀၁၈ ခုနှစ်၊ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ မိခင်နှင့်ကလေး စောင့်ရှောက်ရေးအသင်းဥပဒေ) -

Adoption: 2018-12-11 | MMR-2018-L-108185

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Myanmar Companies Law, 2017 (2017, Union No. 29). (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကုမ္ပဏီများ ဥပဒေ) -

Adoption: 2017-12-06 | MMR-2017-L-107453

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Senior Citizens Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No 44 of 2016). (သက်ကြီးရွယ်အိုများဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေ) -

Adoption: 2016-12-31 | MMR-2016-L-108182

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No 38 of 2016). (ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာစုဝေးခြင်းနှင့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာစီတန်းလှည့်လည်ခြင်းဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေ) -

Adoption: 2016-10-05 | MMR-2016-L-108183

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Shops and Establishments Law (2016) (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 18/2016). -

Adoption: 2016-01-25 | MMR-2016-L-101962

The 2015 Shops and Establishments Law repeals the 1951 Act of the same name. Its purpose is to regulate working time, wages and safeguard the safety and health of workers in shops and establishments.

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Payment of Wages Law (2016) (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 17/2016). -

Adoption: 2016-01-25 | MMR-2016-L-103626

Provides for the payment of wages in Myanmar and repeals the 1936 Payment of Wages Act.

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Pesticide Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 14/2016). -

Adoption: 2016-01-20 | MMR-2016-L-103623

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Law Amending the Code of Criminal Procedure (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 16/2016). -

Adoption: 2016-01-20 | MMR-2016-L-103624

Amends the Code concerning, inter alia, the term of "imprisonment for life" and "transportation for life".

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Law Amending the Factories Act 1951 (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 12/2016). -

Adoption: 2016-01-20 | MMR-2016-L-103625

Makes extensive amendments to the Factories Act.

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Law Amending the Penal Code (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 6/2016). -

Adoption: 2016-01-06 | MMR-2016-L-103621

This amendment adjusts amount of fine, imprisonment terms etc. of a larger number of articles of The Penal Code.

Myanmar - - Miscellaneous (circular, directive, legal notice, instruction, etc.)

National Strategic Plan on HIV and AIDS: Myanmar 2016-2020. -

Adoption: 2016 | MMR-2016-M-112755

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar’s National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS 2016–2020 gave the strategic guide for the country’s response to HIV at national, state/regional and local levels. The framework describes the current dynamics of the HIV epidemic and articulates a strategy to optimize investments through a fast track approach with the vision of ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030. Myanmar’s third National Strategic Plan (HIV NSP III) issues a call to all partners to front-load investments to close the testing gap and reach the 90–90–90 prevention and treatment targets to protect health for all.

This strategy builds upon Myanmar’s political commitment and the achievements of the previous HIV NSP II, and is aligned with the Three Ones principles and guides the country to focus on geographical, population and intervention priorities to ensure the greatest impact.

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Second Amendment of the Law Relating to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw [Assembly of the Union] (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 63/2015). -

Adoption: 2015-12-15 | MMR-2015-L-103617

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Law Repealing the Pensions Act (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 59/2015). -

Adoption: 2015-11-25 | MMR-2015-L-103618

Repeals the Pensions Act of 1871, adopted by India and as implemented and applied in Myanmar.

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Law on the Practice of Monogamy (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 54/2015). -

Adoption: 2015-08-31 | MMR-2015-L-103619

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Buddhist Women Special Marriage Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 50/2015). -

Adoption: 2015-08-26 | MMR-2015-L-103620

Provides that before all marriages between Buddhist women and non-Buddhist men, the couple must submit an application. The registrar is to publicly display the application for 14 days, following which time, if there are no objections, the marriage may be solemnized. The husband must respect his wife’s practice of Buddhism, make no attempts to convert her, allow their children to freely practice their religion and refrain from insulting Buddhism. If he violates any of these mandates, the Buddhist woman may divorce her husband, and the husband will be forced to relinquish his share of jointly owned property and lose guardianship of their children.

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Religious Conversions Law (Law No. 48/2015). (ကိုးကွယ်ရာဘာသာကူးပြောင်းခြင်းဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေ) -

Adoption: 2015-08-26 | MMR-2015-L-112532

The Religious Conversion Law requires that a Myanmar citizen who wishes to change his/her religion must obtain approval from the Registration Board for religious conversion, set up in each township. The applicant must also undergo an interview and engage in religious study for a period not to exceed 90 days from the date of application, but extendable to 180 days at the applicant’s request. If after that period the applicant still wishes to convert, the Registration Board will issue a certificate of religious conversion. The law prescribes punishments for forced conversion or for applying to convert with the intention of harming a religion and includes penalties for violations of the Law.

Myanmar - - Constitution

Law amending the Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, 2015 (45/2015). -

Adoption: 2015-07-22 | Date of entry into force: 2015-08-29 | MMR-2015-C-100489

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Boiler Law, 2015 (39/2015). -

Adoption: 2015-07-21 | MMR-2015-L-100491

Myanmar - - Law, Act

National Education Amendment Law, 2015 (38/2015). -

Adoption: 2015-06-29 | MMR-2015-L-100492

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Law Amending the Referendum Law for the Approval of the Draft Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, 2008 (36/2015). -

Adoption: 2015-06-25 | Date of entry into force: 2015-07-07 | MMR-2015-L-100490

Myanmar - - Law, Act

The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Law, 2015 (30/2015). -

Adoption: 2015-06-09 | Date of entry into force: 2015-10-29 | MMR-2015-L-100494

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Small and Medium Business Development Law, 2015 (23/2015). -

Adoption: 2015-04-09 | MMR-2015-L-100495

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Indigenous Persons' Rights Protection Law, 2015 (8/2015). -

Adoption: 2015-02-24 | Date of entry into force: 2015-03-05 | MMR-2015-L-100496

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Settlement of Labour Disputes Amendment Law, 2014 (40/2014). -

Adoption: 2014-11-05 | MMR-2014-L-100497

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National Education Law, 2014 (41/2014). -

Adoption: 2014-09-30 | MMR-2014-L-100493

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Registration of Organizations Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 31/2014). -

Adoption: 2014-07-28 | MMR-2014-L-103627

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Law amending the Right to Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law, 2011 (26/2014). -

Adoption: 2014-06-24 | Date of entry into force: 2014-06-24 | MMR-2014-L-100499

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Counter-Terrorism Law, 2014 (23/2014). -

Adoption: 2014-06-04 | MMR-2014-L-100518

Myanmar - - Miscellaneous (circular, directive, legal notice, instruction, etc.)

Social Security Rules, No.41 of 2 April 2014. -

Adoption: 2014-04-02 | MMR-2014-M-108952

Myanmar - - Law, Act

National Human Rights Commission Law, 2014 (21/2014). -

Adoption: 2014-03-28 | Date of entry into force: 2014-06-16 | MMR-2014-L-100498

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Media Law, 2014 (12/2014). -

Adoption: 2014-03-14 | MMR-2014-L-100519

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Anti Money Laundering Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 11/2014). (ငွေကြေးခဝါချမှုတိုက်ဖျက်ရေးဥပဒေ) -

Adoption: 2014-03-14 | MMR-2014-L-112530

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Myanmar Special Economic Zones Law, 2014 (1/2014). -

Adoption: 2014-01-23 | MMR-2014-L-100520

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Protection of the Farmer Rights and Enhancement of their Benefits Law, 2013 (32/2013). (ေတာင်သူလယ်သမား ေတာင်သူလယ်သမားအခွင့်အေရးကာကွယ်ေရးှင့် အခွင့်အေရးကာကွယ်ေရးှင့် အခွင့်အေရးကာကွယ်ေရးှင့် အခွင့်အေရးကာကွယ်ေရးှင့် အကျိးစီးပွားမြ င့်တင်ေရး အကျိးစီးပွားမြ င့်တင်ေရး အကျိးစီးပွားမြ င့်တင်ေရးဥပေဒ) -

Adoption: 2013-10-08 | MMR-2013-L-100521

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Employment and Skill Development Law, 2013 (Law No. 29 of 2013). -

Adoption: 2013-08-30 | MMR-2013-L-90699

Chapter I - Title and Definitions
Chapter II - Labour Exchange
Chapter III - Employment Agreement
Chapter IV - Forming the Employment and Skill Development Bodies and the Functions and Duties Thereof
Chapter V - Skill Development and Training of Workers
Chapter VI - Registration and Establishment of Training Schools and Skill Assessment centres
Chapter VII - Holding Skill Competition
Chapter VIII - Workers' Skill Development Fund
Chapter IX - Offences and Penalties
Chapter X - Miscellaneous

Repeals the Employment and Training Act, 1950.

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Prevention From Danger of Chemical and Associated Materials Law, 2013 (28/2013). -

Adoption: 2013-08-26 | MMR-2013-L-100500

Myanmar - - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Minimum Wages Rules (Notification No. 64/2013). -

Adoption: 2013-07-12 | MMR-2013-R-96573

These Rules have been made under sub-section (a) of section 36 Minimum Wages Law.

Chapter 1 - Title and Definition
Chapter 2 - Forming the National Committee and duties and responsibilities
Chapter 3 - Forming of the Union Territory Committee, Region Committee or State Committee
Chapter 4 - Forming the Committee for the Minimum Wage and its duties and responsibilities
Chapter 5 - Relevant Types of Works
Chapter 6 - Fundamental facts relating to the fixing of the Minimum Wage
Chapter 7 - Submitting the advice to fix the Minimum Wage
Chapter 8 - Fixing the minimum wage
Chapter 9 - The power and obligations of the employers
Chapter 10 - The power and obligations of the employees
Chapter 11 - Miscellaneous

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Minimum Wages Act, 2013. -

Adoption: 2013-03-22 | MMR-2012-L-90652

Preamble:
To meet with the essential needs of the workers, and their families, who are working at the commercial, production and service, agricultural and livestock breeding businesses and with the purpose of increasing the capacity of the workers and for the development of competitiveness, the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw hereby enacts this law.

Chapter I - Title and Definitions
Chapter II - Forming the National Committee
Chapter III - The Duties and Powers of the National Committee
Chapter IV - Determining the Categories of Work
Chapter V - The Particulars to be Based Determining the Minimum Wage
Chapter VI - Issuing the Notification which Determines Minimum Wage
Chapter VII - The Duties of the Employer
Chapter VIII - The Rights of the Workers Relating to the Minimum Wage
Chapter IX - Assigning Duty to the Inspection Officer, Inspection and Taking Action
Chapter X - Prohibitions and Penalties
Chapter XI - Miscellaneous

Repeals the following:
- The Minimum Wages Act, 1949 (No. 66/49);
- The Agricultural Workers Minimum Wages Act (No. 44/48).

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Social Security Law, 2012 (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 15 of 2012). -

Adoption: 2012-08-31 | MMR-2012-L-90653

Chapter I - Title, Coming into Force and Definitions
Chapter II - Objectives
Chapter III - Establishment of the Social Security Board and Functions Thereof
Chapter IV - Formation of Social Security Offices, Hospitals, Clinics and Appointing Staff
Chapter V - Social Security System and Benefits
Chapter VI - Application to Employment Injury Benefit Insurance System, Employment Injury Benefit Fund and Benefits
Chapter VII - Provisions Relating Both to Social Security Fund and Employment Injury Benefit Fund
Chapter VIII - Establishing and Maintaining the Social Security Fund and Employment Injury Benefit Fund
Chapter IX - Providing Contribution and Subsidy from the Union Consolidated Fund
Chapter X - Taking Administrative Action, Adjudication of Disputes and Appeal Defaulting Fee for Failing to Pay Contribution
Chapter XI - Offences and Penalties
Chapter XII - Miscellaneous Provisions

Upon entry into force of this law, the Social Security Act, 1954 is repealed.

Myanmar - - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Regulations relating to the Right to Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession, 5 July 2012 (Order No. 364/2012). -

Adoption: 2012-07-05 | MMR-2012-R-93086

These Regulations have been made under Article 24, Section (A) of the Right to Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Act.

Chapter 1 - Title and Definition
Chapter 2 - Application for Permission
Chapter 3 - Issuing of permission, rejection of permission and the application for appeal
Chapter 4 - General

Myanmar - - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

The Settlement of Labour Dispute Rules, Notification No. 2 of 2012.

Adoption: 2012-04-26 | MMR-2012-R-99284

Myanmar - - Law, Act

Families of Disabled or Deceased Soldiers Supporting Act (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 8/2012). -

Adoption: 2012-03-31 | MMR-2012-L-93084

Provides for invalidity and survivors benefits for soldiers.

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The Settlement of Labour Disputes Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 5/2012). -

Adoption: 2012-03-28 | MMR-2012-L-90651

Preamble:
The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw hereby enacts this Law for safeguarding the right of workers or having good relationship between employer and workers and making peaceful workplace or obtaining the rights fairly, rightfully and quickly by settling the dispute of employer and worker justly.

Chapter I - Title and Definitions
Chapter II - Formation of the Workplace Coordinating Committee
Chapter III - Formation of the Conciliation Body
Chapter IV - Formation of the Dispute Settlement Arbitration Body
Chapter V - Formation of Dispute Settlement Arbitration Council
Chapter VI - Settlement of Dispute
Chapter VII - Confirmation, Amendment and Effectiveness of Decision
Chapter VIII - Prohibitions
Chapter IX - Penalties
Chapter X - Miscellaneous

The Act repeals the Trade Disputes Act, 1929. However, article 58 provides that "The rules, procedures, notifications, orders and directives issued under the Trade Disputes Act, 1929 may be applied continuously unless and until they are not contrary to this Law."

Myanmar - - Miscellaneous (circular, directive, legal notice, instruction, etc.)

Labour Organisation Rules (Notification No. 1 of 2012). -

Adoption: 2012-02-29 | MMR-2012-M-98859