Ministry of Legal Affairs (Myanmar) explained

Agency Name:	Ministry of Legal Affairs
Nativename:	ဥပဒေရေးရာ ဝန်ကြီးဌာန
Seal:	File:Seal of MOLA.jpg
Preceding1:	Office of the Attorney General (Myanmar)
Jurisdiction:	Government of Myanmar
Headquarters:	Office No (25), Naypyidaw
Minister1 Name:	Thida Oo
Minister1 Pfo:	Union Minister and Attorney General
Deputyminister1 Pfo:	Deputy Minister and Deputy Attorney General
Deputyminister7 Name:	-->
Agency Type:	Ministry

Ministry of Legal Affairs (Burmese: ဥပဒေရေးရာဝန်ကြီးဌာန) serves as the Government of Myanmar's main legal advisory body. The Office is led by the Union Minister Thida Oo who is also serves as Attorney General.^[1] After the caretaker government was formed in 2021, the Union Attorney General's Office was reorganized into a ministry on 30 August 2021.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Departments

• Legislative and Advising Department
• Legal Advice Department
• Prosecution Department
• Administration Department

List of ministers

Union ministers

	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Political party	Appointer
			Took office	Left office	Days
1		Thida Oo	30 August 2021	Incumbent		Independent	SAC
			also serves as Attornery General

Deputy ministers

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1	San Lwin	30 August 2021	12 October 2022		Independent	Min Aung Hlaing	^[5]
2	Dr Thein Lin Oo	3 August 2023	Present				^[6]

Note: Deputy Minister also serves as Deputy Union Attorney General of Myanmar

Notes and References

1. News: ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၇ / ၂၀၂၁.
2. News: ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၆ / ၂၀၂၁.
3. News: Union Attorney-General Office reformed as Legal Affairs Ministry.
4. Web site: ORDER NO. 176: MINISTRY OF LEGAL AFFAIRS FORMED.
5. News: ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၇၈ / ၂၀၂၁ .
6. Web site: 4 August 2023 . ဒုတိယဝန်ကြီးနှင့် ဒုတိယရှေ့နေချုပ် ခန့်အပ်တာဝန်ပေးခြင်း . Ministry of Information.