In Parliament’s law-making, a new law proposed has to be approved by both the Lower House and the Upper House - the Dewan Rakyat and the Dewan Negara - before it can be implemented as law.

This is in addition to receiving royal assent for the new law and having it gazetted in the Federal Gazette, which comes after parliamentary approval.

However, the much anticipated electoral boundary redelineation exercise will highlight an exception to this rule...