Ministry of Legal Affairs (Myanmar)

Ministry of Legal Affairs (Burmese: ဥပဒေရေးရာဝန်ကြီးဌာန) serves as the Government of Myanmar's main legal advisory body. The Office is led by the Union Minister Thida Oo who is also serves as Attorney General.^[1] After the caretaker government was formed in 2021, the Union Attorney General's Office was reorganized into a ministry on 30 August 2021.^[2][3][4]

Ministry of Legal Affairs

ဥပဒေရေးရာ ဝန်ကြီးဌာန
seal of MOLA
Agency overview
Formed	30 August 2021; 23 months ago (2021-08-30)
Preceding agency	Office of the Attorney General (Myanmar)
Type	Ministry
Jurisdiction	Government of Myanmar
Headquarters	Office No (25), Naypyidaw
Minister responsible	Thida Oo, Union Minister and Attorney General
Deputy Minister responsible	Deputy Minister and Deputy Attorney General
Website	www.mola.gov.mm

Departments

• Legislative and Advising Department
• Legal Advice Department
• Prosecution Department
• Administration Department

List of ministers

Union ministers

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Political party	President	Deputy Minister
			Took office	Left office	Days
1		Thida Oo	30 August 2021	Incumbent	721	Independent	Myint Swe (acting)	San Lwin
			also serves as Attornery General

Deputy ministers

• San Lwin (30.8.2021 - 12.10.2022)^[5][6]

References

1. "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၇ / ၂၀၂၁".
2. "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၆ / ၂၀၂၁".
3. "Union Attorney-General Office reformed as Legal Affairs Ministry".
4. "ORDER NO. 176: MINISTRY OF LEGAL AFFAIRS FORMED".
5. "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၈ / ၂၀၂၁".
6. "မြန်မာ့အလင်းသတင်းစာ (၁၃.၁၀.၂၀၂၂)".

External links

• Official website