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Section38.The committees of the Royal Institute which are performing duties on the day of publication of this Act in the Royal Gazette shall continue to be the committees under this Act.

Section39.The persons holding the offices of President of the Royal Institute, Vice Presidents of the Royal Institute, presidents of academies, and secretaries of academies on the day of publication of this Act in the Royal Gazette, who have been selected in accordance with section 20 of the Royal Institute Act, 2485 Buddhist Era, shall continue to hold the offices until expiry of their terms.

The person holding the office of Secretary General of the Royal Institute on the day of publication of this Act in the Royal Gazette, who has been selected in accordance with section 20(2) of the Royal Institute Act, 2485 Buddhist Era, shall retire from the office of Secretary General of the Royal Institute and shall hold the office of Vice President of the Royal Institute under this Act until expiry of his former term as Secretary General of the Royal Institute.

The holding of the offices under paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 shall not constitute the terms of office under this Act.

Section40.As long as the rules of the Council of the Royal Institute designating the disciplines of knowledge in each academy according to section 9 are still not in place, the provisions of section 8, section 9, and section 10 of the Royal Institute Act, 2485 Buddhist Era, shall apply for the time being.

Section41.As long as the rules of meeting of the Council of the Royal Institute according to section 30, paragraph 1, and the rules of meeting of the academies according to section 33, paragraph 3, are still not in place, the provisions of section 24 of the Royal Institute Act, 2485 Buddhist Era, shall apply for the time being.

Section42.All the regulations, regulatory instruments, and announcements issued under the Royal Institute Act, 2485 Buddhist Era, and the Royal Institute Act (No 2), 2487 Buddhist Era, which are in force on the day of publication of this Act in the Royal Gazette, shall remain in force in so far as they are not contrary or repugnant to the provisions of this Act and until the rules or regulations issued under this Act come into force.

Countersignatory:
Police Lieutenant Colonel Thaksin Shinawatra
Prime Minister