Committee Representing P eople's Pa

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	    Committee Representing the People's Parliament 
	Elected by the 1990 Multiparty Democratic General Elections

 			      Notification No. 2

The Committee Representing the People's Parliament held a meeting on
September 28, 1998 and made the following decisions:

1) The Committee Representing the People's Parliament agreed to 
recommend
that the Parliament adopt the following laws:

a. Political Parties Registration Law (State Law and Order Restoration
Council's Law No. 4/88)

b. Associations Law (State Law and Order Restoration Council's Law No. 
6/88)

c. With the exception of the rulings which do not conform to the 
democratic
procedural rules, the Pyithu Hluttaw (People's Parliament) Elections Law
(State Law and Order Restoration Council's Law No. 14/89)


2)  The Committee Representing the People's Parliament agreed to 
recommend
that the Parliament ratify Burma's signing of the Convention on the 
Rights
of the Child, which was passed by the United Nations General Assembly on
November 20, 1989.


3)  The Committee Representing the People's Parliament recommended that 
the
Parliament revoke the following laws:

a. The 1950 Emergency Provisions Act, including Section 5, the law which 
is
excessively cited and illegally used to persecute the people, 
particularly
the politicians.

b. The Law Protecting the State from the Dangers of Subversive Elements
that revolves around Section 10, an article used in illegally 
persecuting
the people and particularly, the politicians.


4) The Committee Representing the People's Parliament decided to review 
and
revise, if necessary, the existing laws so that they adequately 
safeguard
the security and stability of the nation without infringing the basic
rights of the people.


5)  The Committee Representing the People's Parliament decided to 
present
the following laws to the Parliament so that they can be reviewed and
considered for revision:

a. The Pyithu Hluttaw (People's Parliament) Law and By-laws,
b. Laws Regulating Regional Democratic Administration,
c. The Law Safeguarding the Rights of Citizens,
d. The Universities Act, and
e. Sections 8 and 12 of the Village Act concerning the conscription of
people for forced labor purposes.



		Committee Representing the People's Parliament



Rangoon
The 8th Rising moon of Thadingyut 1360
September 28, 1998




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