AIPA NEWS BULLETIN FIRST QUARTERLY                                                                    OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2007

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS MALAYSIA

A.  PARLIAMENT SITTINGS

The third meeting of the Fourth Session of the Eleventh Parliament of Malaysia was held from August to December 2007. Nineteen (19) Bills including five new legislations were passed during this meeting.

The new legislations were:

i.       Bank Pertanian Malaysia Act 2007;

ii.       International Trade in Endangered Species Act 2007;

iii.      Persons with Disabilities Act 2007;

iv.      Northern Corridor Implementation Authority Act 2007;

v.      East Coast Economic Region Development Council Act 2007

There was also an amendment to the Federal Constitution i.e. Article 114 (3) to extend the retirement age of a member of the Election Commission to sixty-six years instead of sixty-five.

B.  VISITS AND CONFERENCES

The Parliament of Malaysia had welcomed visits by:

1.   H.E. Peter Milliken, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada from 3 to 9 November 2007

2.   H.E. Jiang Enzhu, Chairman of the Foreign Committee of the Tenth National People’s Congress (NPC) of the People’s Republic of China on 3 December 2007

3.   Members of the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) of the Federal Republicof Nigeria on 14 December 2007

4.  H.E. Song Baorui, Vice Chairman of the Sub-committee for Handling Proposals, National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) of the People’s Republic of China on 17 December 2007

The visiting delegates held meetings with their Malaysian counterparts and officials on various regional issues and exchanged parliamentary information.

The Parliament of Malaysia also sent delegations to participate in the following overseas conferences and visits:

1.   Official visit by the President of Senate, H.E. Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Dr. Abdul Hamid Pawanteh to the French Republic from 5 to 8 November 2007

2.   OPCW – Ninth Annual Meeting of National Authority, The Hague, Netherlands, 2 to 3 November 2007

3.   Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA), Tehran, Iran, 19 to 21 November 2007

4.  CPA International Parliamentary Conference, Climate Change: Tackling Causes, Managing Impacts, London, 26 to 30 November 2007

5.   Regional Seminar for the Parliaments of Asia-Pacific, Vientiane, Lao PDR, 26 to 28 November 2007

6.   First Global Parliamentary Meeting on HIV/AIDS, Manila, the Philippines, 28 to 30 November 2007

7.   2nd Session of the World Health Organization (WHO), Meeting on Public Health and Intellectual Property, Geneva, Switzerland, 5 to 10 November 2007

8.   CPA Parliamentary Staff Development Workshop for Asia and South East Asia Regions, Sri Lanka, 17 to 21 December 2007.

C.  ANNOUNCEMENT

Mdm. Roosme Hamzah has become the first woman Secretary General of the House of Representatives, Parliament of Malaysia replacing Datuk Mahmood bin Adam effective from 26 December 2007 

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