Skip to content

Section 69

Safeguards for constitutional position of Singapore (Article 161h)

of Malaysia Act

ActIn forceProvision 69 of 151
Section 69

(a)

citizenship of Singapore, and the restriction to citizens of

Singapore of the right to be a member of either House of Parliament for or from Singapore, or to be a member of the Legislative Assembly of Singapore, or to vote at elections in Singapore;

Act 26/1963

(b)

the constitution and jurisdiction of the High Court in

Singapore 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, the executive authority of the State in those matters, the borrowing powers of the State and the financial arrangements between the Federation and the

State;

(d)

the discharge of functions of the Public Services Commission or of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission by a branch established for the State, and the constitution of any such branch;

(e)

religion in the State, the use in the State or in Parliament of any language and the special position of the Malays in Singapore;

(f)

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.

(2)

In this Article “amendment” includes addition and repeal.

Title VII

Supplementary