Constitution (Amendment) Act 2025 · s 2

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s 2Amendment of Article 15

The Federal Constitution is amended in Article 15—

(a)

in Clause (1)—

(i)

in paragraph (a), by deleting the word “and”

at the end of the paragraph;

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(ii)

in paragraph (b), by substituting for the full stop at the end of the paragraph the words “; and”;

and

(iii)

by inserting after paragraph (b) the following paragraph:

“(c) that she has an adequate knowledge of the Malay language.”;

(b)

in Clause (2), by substituting for the words

“twenty-one years” the words “eighteen years”; and

(c)

by deleting Clause (3).