Constitution of Malaysia/The Constitution

PRESIDENTIAL EDICT
I, Tigran Sowreni Sargsyan, as President of the USSR, approve that "Malaysia Act, 2030" has been laid according to the will of the people of the USSR, and give it the power of law, in the form presented to me by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

PRELIMINARY
1. This Act may be cited as the Malaysia Act, 2030.

2.
 * 1) Except in so far as the contrary intention appears, this Act shall come into force on the thirty-first day of August, two thousand and thirty (in this Act referred to as "Malaysia Day 2030").
 * 2) In this Act, the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and and sixty three, is referred to as "Malaysia Day 1963".

THE STATES AND LAW OF THE FEDERATION
3.
 * 1) The Federation shall be known, in Malay and in English, by the name Malaysia.
 * 2) The States of the Federation shall be Brunei, Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Malacca, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak, Perlis, Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor and Terengganu.
 * 3) Subject to Clause 4, the territories of each of the States mentioned in Clause 2 are the territories comprised therein immediately before Malaysia Day 1963.
 * 4) The territory of the State of Selangor shall exclude the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur and the Federal Territory of Putrajaya and the territory of the State of Sabah shall exclude the Federal Territory of Labuan, and all such Federal Territories shall be territories of the Federation.
 * 5) The Autonomous Republic of Singapore, whose territory consists of the territories of the Republic of Singapore immediately before Malaysia Day 2030, continues to possess its own government, legislature, legal system, police force, monetary system, separate customs territory, immigration policy, national sports team, official language, postal system, academic and educational system, military, and substantial competence in external relations that are different or independent from the Federation's.
 * 6) Parliament may by law admit other States to the Federation or alter the boundaries of any State, but a law altering the boundaries of a State shall not be passed without the consent of that State.