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Chapter 1
General provisions

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Section6.The Royal Society shall be a public entity called otherwise and have the status of a department which is not subject to the Office of the Prime Minister or any ministry or subministry, according to the law on regulation of public affairs of the State.

Section7.The Royal Society shall have the following powers and duties:

(1)to investigate, research, and nourish all types of knowledge, and publish the works created for the benefit of the Country and the public;

(2)to contact with, exchange knowledge with, and coordinate on academic affairs with learned organisations and other academic institutions, both inside and outside the Country;

(3)to provide academic opinion, advice, and counsel to the Prime Minister or Cabinet;

(4)to provide academic services to public entities, state enterprises, constitutional independent agencies, public organisations, other state agencies, educational institutions, private agencies, and the public;

(5)to carry out works relating to the production of dictionaries, encyclopaedias, directories, and taxonomies, the coinage of academic terms in all branches, and the production of dictionaries of foreign academic terms in the Thai language, as well as other academic works;

(6)to designate criteria relating to the use of the Thai language, the conservation of the Thai language from ruinous changes, and the promotion of the Thai language, which is an identity of the Nation, so that it be more prominently recognised;

(7)to perform other acts designated by the law to be subject to the powers and duties of the Royal Institute.

Section8.The academic works of the Royal Institute shall be divided into the following academies:

(1)Academy of Moral and Political Sciences;

(2)Academy of Science;

(3)Academy of Arts.

Establishment of new academies, or dissolution, consolidation, or separation of academies, shall be effected by royal decrees.

Section9.Designation of fields of knowledge in each academy, and division of fields of knowledge into disciplines of knowledge, shall be effected by rules of the Council of the Royal Institute.

Section10.Rules of the Council of the Royal Institute shall be published in the Royal Gazette.