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"Section83.The House of Representatives is composed of Members numbering five hundred, of whom four hundred are Members elected on a constituency basis and one hundred are Members elected on a party-list basis.

Elections of Members of the House of Representatives shall be conducted by means of direct and secret ballot, with different ballot papers used for each basis of Members of the House of Representatives.

In the case that a position of Member of the House of Representatives has become vacant for any reason and no Member of the House of Representatives has yet been elected or announced to fill the vacant position, the House of Representatives shall only be composed of the existing Members of the House of Representatives.

In the case that there occurs any cause by which the number of the Members elected on a party-list basis is reduced from one hundred, the party-list Members of the House of Representatives shall only be composed of those existing."

Section4.The stipulations of section 86 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:

"Section86.The designation of the number of the Members of the House of Representatives that each province should have, and the division of constituencies, shall follow the following procedure:

(1)the number of the people throughout the Country as evidenced in the civil register announced in the last year before the year of the election shall be balanced with the number of four hundred Members of the House of Representatives, and the obtained number shall be considered the number of people per one Member;

(2)any province of which the people are below the standard number of people per one Member according to (1) shall be able to have one Member of the House of Representatives, with the province being considered a constituency;

(3)any province of which the people are above the number of people per one Member shall have one additional Member of the House of Representatives per every number of people which reaches the standard number of people per one Member;

(4)after the number of the Members of the House of Representatives for each province has been obtained in accordance with (2) and (3), if the number of the Members of the House of Representatives is still less than four hundred, the province with the highest residue left from the calculation under (3) shall have one additional Member of the House of Representatives, and Members of the House of Representatives shall be increased in accordance with the said procedure for the respective provinces with the next highest residues left from such calculation until the number of four hundred is completed;