INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA-WALES: MALAYSIAN STUDIES (MPW3)

Sunday, 13 April 2014

Dewan Negara

National Hall - Dewan Negara


  • National hall or Dewan Negara in Malay language is an upper house of the parliament in Malaysia which consist of 70 senators, 26 senators are elected by the state legislative assemblies
  • the 26 senators that has been elected by the state legislative assemblies have 2 senators for each federations while 44 others are appointed by Yang di-pertuan Agong (YDPA ) of whom four senators are appointed to represent the federal territories. 
  • The establishment of dewan negara is to revise and pass the legal framework that has been established by the dewan rakyat.
  • Both of dewan negara and dewan rakyat have to pass the law structure that has been done before it will be send to Yang di-Pertuan Agong. 
  • National hall is leaded by the Yang di-pertuan Agong where only members that have be registered can enter the hall. 
  • YDPA is assisted by Deputy Yang Dipertua (YDP) and a dewan secretary.
  •  All members is known as senators and it consist 70 members in it.


    Parliament

Membership - Keahlian 


  • The individual must be able to achieve distinction in career, business, industry, agriculture, cultural activities or social service representative in minority communities or capable of representing the interests of indigenous. 
  • Each of the 13 state legislative assemblies elect two Senators
  • The term of office is three years and senators can only be selected once, consecutive or not. 
  • Yang Di-Pertuan Agong appoints two senators to the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, and another in the Federal Territory of Labuan under the advice of the Prime Minister. 44 other senators, does not refer to the state, appointed by the Sultan, also on the advice of the Prime Minister. 
  • To qualify, candidates must be a citizen of the Federation, must not be bankrupt by order of any foreign state, must not receive a prison sentence of one year or more, and must not be sued  RM2,000 or more. 
  • The holder of the position of making a full-time interest in public service are not eligible. There is no need to belong to a political party. 
  • Parliament is allowed to increase the number of Senators to a three-state, reduce the number, or eliminate specific positions for the entire state Senator and provisions that senators elected by direct vote of electors state. appointment process set forth in Article 45 of the Constitution. 
  • The senate does not feel any effect of the election as the lower house of a parliament. They will continue in office despite the dissolution of the house of representatives for an election. 
  • The senators will vote one president to lead as the senators to ensure the observations from the house rules and interpret the orders. 
  • Besides that, to be eligible members the senators need to age not more than 30 years old and originally is a malaysian citizen. The members also have to be clean in crimes sectors and not affected by dissolution of the parliament. 

Sulatan Abdul Halim Muazam Shah 



Peranan Dewan Negara (Roles of Dewan Negara)


  • One of the roles of the dewan negara is to discuss and pass bills that have been passed by the dewan rakyat. Dewan negara need to discuss and pass the bills before it will be send to Yang di-Pertuan Agong and dewan negara doesn't have any power to reject the bill presented to it. they only have a power to delay in passing the bills for a month and period of time if it does not agree with them.

          

          

No comments:

Post a Comment