“Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar wants the Johor Real Property and Housing Board Bill to be reviewed,” the national news agency said in a one-liner report. The Johor Housing and Real Property Enactment Board Bill 2014 was amended and passed by the state legislative assembly last June, following uproar over the state’s granting of administrative powers to the Johor Sultan, which critics said goes against the principles of a constitutional monarchy. The revised housing bill includes a provision for the Sultan is to act on the advice of the mentri besar, The Star reported Johor's Local Government and Housing executive councillor Datuk Abdul Latif Bandi saying in his speech in the assembly. Other clauses that had initially mentioned the Johor Ruler have been amended to read “state authorities”.