AGC plans to replace English text of Federal Constitution with BM version

PUTRAJAYA: The Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) is planning to replace the English text of the Federal Constitution with the Bahasa Malaysia translation as the authoritative text.

Attorney General Tan Sri Idrus Harun said the AGC would bring forward the proposal to the government for the prescription of the Federal Constitution in the national language to be the authoritative text, in line with Article 160B of the Federal Constitution.