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(e)
The President shall take necessary measures for re-delineation of the
territorial boundary of the Union, as necessary, after obtaining the opinion of
the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.
53.
(a)
If there arises a cause to re-delineate the territorial boundary of a Region or
a State, the prior consent of the electorate residing within the township
concerned shall be obtained.
(b) In obtaining consent, re-delineation of the territorial boundary shall not be
executed at all in the absence of assenting votes of more than half of the total
number of the electorate residing within the township concerned.
(c)
If more than half of the total number of eligible voters residing within the
township concerned cast assenting vote for re-delineation of the territorial
boundary, the consent of the Hluttaw representatives of the Region or State
involved in the territorial boundary concerned shall be obtained.
(d) The President shall re-delineate the territorial boundary of the Region or
State concerned with the consent of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, after obtaining
the assenting votes of three-fourths and above of the total number of
representatives from the Region or the State concerned.
(e)
The resolution of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw shall be obtained if a Region
Hluttaw or a State Hluttaw concerned decided against re-delineation of the
territorial boundary.
(f)
The President shall, as necessary, re-delineate the territorial boundary of a
Region or a State if three-fourths and above of the total number of
representatives in the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw assent to the re-delineation of the
territorial boundary.