Post: | Speaker |
Body: | the Selangor State Legislative Assembly |
Native Name: | Yang di-Pertua Dewan Undangan Negeri Selangor 雪兰莪州立法议会议长 |
Insignia: | Coat of arms of Selangor.svg |
Insigniasize: | 100px |
Insigniacaption: | Coat of arms of Selangor |
Incumbent: | Lau Weng San |
Incumbentsince: | 19 September 2023 |
Department: | Selangor State Legislative Assembly |
Style: | Yang Berhormat Tuan Yang di-Pertua (formal) Tuan Speaker/Tuan Pengerusi (informal and within the assembly) |
Status: | Highest ranking presiding officer of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly |
Member Of: | Committee of Selection, Standing Orders Committee, House Committee, Committee of Privileges |
Reports To: | Selangor State Legislative Assembly |
Seat: | Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Building, Shah Alam, Selangor |
Appointer: | Elected by members of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly |
Termlength: | Elected at the start of each Selangor State Legislative Assembly, upon a vacancy |
Constituting Instrument: | Constitution of Selangor |
Inaugural: | Abdullah Hassan |
Deputy: | Deputy Speaker of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly |
The Speaker of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly (Malay: Yang di-Pertua Dewan Undangan Negeri Selangor; ; Tamil: சிலாங்கூர் மாநில சட்டப் பேரவையின் சபாநாயகர்) is the highest-ranking presiding officer in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly, the unicameral legislature of the Malaysian state of Selangor. They are responsible for convening sessions of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly, organising debates, and examining the admissibility of petitions, bills, and amendments. In the absence of the Speaker, the deputy will take their place.
The speaker is selected through ballot in the first session of a new legislative assembly.[1]
The incumbent Speaker is Lau Weng San. He was elected on 19 September 2023 for the 15th Selangor State Legislative Assembly.[2] The inaugural Speaker is Abdullah Hassan who served from 8 July 1959 to 17 November 1962.[3]
The Selangor State Legislative Assembly may from time to time elect a person of eligibility to become a Speaker of the assembly. A speaker may not be elected to be a Speaker unless he is a member or qualified to be a member of the legislative assembly. The speaker may resign at any time. He must vacate his office when either the legislative assembly first meet after a general election, or upon being disqualified to be a speaker, or upon the dissolution of the assembly, or on his ceasing to be a member of assembly other than because of the dissolution of the legislative assembly or ceased to be qualified of a member. A Deputy Speaker may also be chosen from any member of the legislative assembly.[4]
Source:[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Colour key (for political parties):
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No. | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Party | Election | Assembly | ||||
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1 | Abdullah Hassan | 1959 | 1962 | Alliance (UMNO) | 1959 | 1st | ||||
2 | < | -- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH --> | Abdullah Mohd Yassin | 1962 | 1966 | Alliance (UMNO) | – | |||
1964 | 2nd | |||||||||
3 | Raja Nong Chik Raja Ishak | 1966 | 1969 | Alliance (UMNO) | – | |||||
4 | Raja Zulkifli Raja Borhan | 1971 | 1974 | Alliance (UMNO) | 1969 | 3rd | ||||
5 | < | -- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH --> | Shoib Ahmad | 1974 | 1982 | BN (UMNO) | 1974 | 4th | ||
1978 | 5th | |||||||||
6 | < | -- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH --> | Saidin Tamby | 1982 | 1990 | BN (UMNO) | 1982 | 6th | ||
1986 | 7th | |||||||||
7 | Zainal Dahalan | 1990 | 1995 | BN (UMNO) | 1990 | 8th | ||||
8 | < | -- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH --> | Onn Ismail | 1995 | 2008 | BN (UMNO) | 1995 | 9th | ||
1999 | 10th | |||||||||
2004 | 11th | |||||||||
9 | Teng Chang Khim | 2008 | 2013 | PR (DAP) | 2008 | 12th | ||||
10 | Hannah Yeoh Tseow Suan | 2013 | 2018 | PR (DAP) | ||||||
2013 | 13th | |||||||||
PH (DAP) | ||||||||||
11 | Ng Suee Lim | 2018 | 2023 | PH (DAP) | 2018 | 14th | ||||
12 | Lau Weng San | 2023 | Incumbent | PH (DAP) | 2023 | 15th |