The Office of the Auditor General ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စုစာရင်းစစ်ချုပ်ရုံး; abbreviated OAG) is an independent government body that serves as the

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of the Government of Myanmar (Burma). The Office of the Auditor General is currently held by Dr

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. The previous Auditor General was U Myo Myint, and his predecessor was U Thein Htaik, appointed by President

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on 7 September 2012.

History

The Office of the Auditor General was first formally established during British rule, under the Burma Act of 1935. In post-colonial Burma, the Office of the Auditor General was initially established in 1948 under the Parliament's Auditor General Act of 1948, which provided for the appointment of the Auditor General. In 1974, the

Pyithu Hluttaw The Pyithu Hluttaw ( my, ပြည်သူ့ လွှတ်တော်, ; House of Representatives) is the ''de jure'' lower house of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the bicameral legislature of Myanmar (Burma). It consists of 440 members, of whic ...

passed the Council of People’s Inspectors Law, which repealed the 1948 law and merged all auditing agencies, except the Controller of Military Accounts, into a centralised agency, the Central Accounts Office, in January 1974. On 27 September 1988, the

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(SLORC), which had recently seized power, appointed an Auditor General and Deputy Auditor General, under Order No. 7/88, and repealed the 1975 Law under Order No. 5/88 and the Auditor General Law of 1988. On 8 March 1994, the

replaced the Accounting Law, which established an Office of the Auditor General of the Union (OAG) that acts as the Secretariat of the Myanmar Accountancy Council, the nation's professional accountancy body. OAG's functions are currently governed by the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar (Burma) and the Auditor General of the Union Law of 2010, which repealed the 1988 law. Thein Htaik died and a new Auditor General, U Myo Myint, was appointed to the position in 2016.

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Official website
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