Disclaimer
I am not a constitution expert nor that I am a lawyer. The posting is of my humble opinion as a citizen of Malaysia. If you easily feel offended and cannot take a non-expert view of the constitution please not read any further.
This is a continuation of my series of my interpretation of Federal Constitution. Original post please find here. You can also download all the original source of documents (constitution) there.
My interpretation are as follows:
- Parliament can vote to decide to admit new states into the Federation. This means that Parliament can decide at anytime to create new state. Whether it makes sense or not – don’t know.
- Parliament can also decide to alter boundaries of any state (we need bigger Selangor and Penang – so that property price can go down??) BUT….
- State and conference of rulers must give consent before boundaries are altered. Makes sense la….. Any changes will impact at least two states. The states better agree with each other…. otherwise…