Section 66
of Malaysia Act
Section 66
(2)
No amendment shall be made to the Constitution without the concurrence of the Governor of the Borneo State or each of the Borneo States concerned, if the amendment is such as to affect the operation of the Constitution as regards any of the following matters:
(a)
the right of persons born before Malaysia day to citizenship by reason of a connection with the State, and (except to the extent that different provision is made by the
Constitution as in force on Malaysia Day) the equal treatment, as regards their own citizenship and that of others, of persons born or resident in the State and of persons born or resident in the States of Malaya;
(b)
the constitution and jurisdiction of the High Court in
Borneo and the appointment, removal and suspension of judges of that court;
(c)
the matters with respect to which the Legislature of the
State may (or Parliament may not) make laws, and the executive authority of the State in those matters, and
(so far as related thereto) the financial arrangements between the Federation and the State;
(d)
religion in the State, the use in the State or in Parliament of any language and the special treatment of natives of the State;
(e)
the allocation to the State, in any Parliament summoned to meet before the end of August, 1970, of a quota of members of the House of Representatives not less, in proportion to the total allocated to the other States which are members of the Federation on Malaysia Day, than the quota allocated to the State on that day.
(3)
No amendment to the Constitution which affects its operation as regards the quota of members of the House of
Representatives allocated to a Borneo State shall be treated for purposes of Clause (1) as equating or assimilating the position of that State to the position of the States of Malaya.
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(4)
In relation to any rights and powers conferred by federal law on the government of a Borneo State as regards entry into the State and residence in the State and matters connected therewith
(whether or not the law is passed before Malaysia Day) Clause (2)
shall apply, except insofar as the law provides to the contrary, as if the law had been embodied in the Constitution and those rights and powers had been included among the matters mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e) of that Clause.
(5)
In this Article “amendment” includes addition and repeal.