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Standing Orders of the Dewan Rakyat

Parliamentary rules

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2024
Entity authorityQ23671504 ↗
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The Standing Orders of the Dewan Rakyat are used by the Dewan Rakyat, the lower chamber of the Parliament of Malaysia as its primary procedural authority. The Standing Orders are made by the Dewan Rakyat in pursuance of Article 162 of the Federal Constitution.

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This entry incorporates text from “Standing Orders of the Dewan Rakyat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.