Municipal Affairs Bureau

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Municipal Affairs Bureau
Instituto para os Assuntos Municipais
市政署
Agency overview
Formed1 January 2019 (2019-01-01)
Preceding
  • Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau
JurisdictionGovernment of Macau
HeadquartersAvenida Almeida Ribeiro, n.º 163, Macau
WebsiteIAM.gov.mo
Municipal Affairs Bureau
Chinese name
Hanyu Pinyin
Shì Zhèng Shǔ
Portuguese namePortuguese
Instituto para os Assuntos Municipais

The Municipal Affairs Bureau (

Secretariat for Administration and Justice
of the Macau government.

History

Following the

transfer of sovereignty over Macau from Portugal to China in 1999, the Portuguese administrative divisions of municipalities (concelhos) and parishes (freguesias) in Macau were kept provisionally in place: the provisional municipal council of Macau, the provisional municipal council of Ilhas, and the provisional municipal assemblies of each municipality.[1]

On 31 December 2001, all the provisional organs were dissolved and the new Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (Instituto para os Assuntos Cívicos e Municipais [IACM], 民政總署) took on the roles of the provisional municipal councils, starting from 1 January 2002, under the Secretariat for Administration and Justice of the Macau government.[2][3]

The IACM was given a logo based on the

Chinese Han character
, for "civilian".

In 2018, the Macau legislative assembly passed Law No. 9/2018 which abolished the IACM and created the Municipal Affairs Bureau in its place.[4] All the functions of the former were transferred to the new bureau and a new 25-member municipal affairs advisory council was established. This came into effect on 1 January 2019.

See also

References

  1. ^ Law 1/1999, Article 15 Archived 25 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Law 17/2001". Archived from the original on 25 November 2005. Retrieved 25 October 2005.
  3. ^ Administrative Regulation 32/2001 Archived 22 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Law 9/2018" – via Imprensa Oficial.

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