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AUGUST 5 ― Article 43(2)(a) of the Federal Constitution states that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong shall appoint as prime minister to preside over the Cabinet a member of the House of Representatives who in his judgment is likely to command the confidence of the majority of the members of that House.
Article 43(4) says that if the prime minister ceases to command the confidence of the majority of the members of the House of Representatives, then, unless at his request the Agong dissolves Parliament, the prime minister shall tender the resignation of the Cabinet.
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THERE were no less than 59 mentions of the word “convention” in the constitutional case of the menteri besar of Perak (2009) in the Court of Appeal’s judgment.
Given that Malaysia has a written constitution, the three appellate judges had to apply their minds to the position of constitutional conventions in the country. That the federal constitution has its own peculiarities is something that was not lost on Zainun Ali JCA (as she then was), one of the three judges. His Ladyship said:
“Federal Constitution … has its own peculiarities. [It] is embodied in one document and gathers unto itself various sources of law, some of which are implicit. The unique presence of the written law, shot through with informal and unwritten sources in the form of conventions, prerogatives, discretionary and residual powers as such, help ensure the continuation of constitutionalism and the rule of law. Thus, the sources of law in our constitution are several. Article 160(1) of the
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