Myanmar 2008 Constitution (reviewed 2015)

Chapter XII. Amendment of the Constitution

1. Any provision of this Constitution may be amended in the manner herein after provided:
   1. the proposal to amend the Constitution shall be submitted in the form of a Bill;
   2. the Bill to amend the Constitution shall not contain other proposals.
2. The Bill to amend the Constitution shall be submitted to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.
3. If twenty percent of the total number of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw representatives submit the Bill to amend the Constitution, it shall be considered by the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.

436

1. If it is necessary to amend the provisions of Sections 1 to 48 in Chapter I, Sections 49 to 56 in Chapter II, Sections 59 and 60 in Chapter III, Sections 74, 109, 141 and 161 in Chapter IV, Sections 200, 201, 248 and 276 in Chapter V, Sections 293, 294, 305, 314 and 320 in Chapter VI, Sections 410 to 432 in Chapter XI and Sections 436 in Chapter XII of this Constitution, it shall be amended with the prior approval of more than seventy-five percent of all the representatives of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, after which in a nation-wide referendum only with the votes of more than half of those who are eligible to vote.
2. Provisions other than those mentioned in Sub-Section (a) shall be amended only by a vote of more than seventy-five percent of all the representatives of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.