Deputy law and institutional reform minister M Kulasegaran said the other three bills are the Mufti (Federal Territories) Bill 2024, Administration of Islamic Law (Federal Territories) Act 1993 (Amendment) and Syariah Court Civil Procedure (Federal Territories) Act 1998 (Amendment).

The Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2024 was last postponed in March, after its first reading, when Dewan Rakyat Speaker Johari Abdul said he had to bring the session to a close.

The government had received flak from opposition MPs for the previous postponement.

Home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said at the time that MPs would get an opportunity to debate the citizenship amendment bill in the current Dewan Rakyat meeting.

The amendments to the constitution aim to tighten citizenship criteria while considering security and humanitarian aspects.

The proposed changes include seven amendments, three new provisions and three repeals addressing national security and sovereignty.