Volume 132, Issue 64A
Royal Gazette
15 July 2558
or counted from the day of the lapse of the draft constitution in accordance with section 37, paragraph 8, as the case may be, the National Council for Peace and Order shall establish a Constitution Drafting Commission, composed of one President and not more than twenty other Members, to discharge the duty of drafting a constitution, which must be finished within one hundred and eighty days counted from the day of establishment of [the Commission], provided that section 33 and section 35 shall apply mutatis mutandis.
In the course of the preparation of a draft constitution, the Constitution Drafting Commission shall also take into account the opinions of the National Council for Peace and Order, the Council of Ministers, the National Legislative Assembly, and the people, provided that this be in accordance with the criteria and procedure and be subject to the time limits designated by the Constitution Drafting Commission.
Once the Constitution Drafting Commission has finished drafting a constitution, it shall notify the Council of Ministers thereof, and the Council of Ministers shall promptly notify the Election Commission thereof. Then it shall be the duty of the Election Commission to organise a referendum in accordance with the criteria, procedure, and time limits designated by an announcement of the Election Commission upon approval of the National Legislative Assembly and published in the Royal Gazette, and section 37, paragraph 4, paragraph 5, paragraph 6, paragraph 7, and paragraph 8, section 37/1, and section 39, paragraph 1, shall apply mutatis mutandis, provided that the powers and duties of the Constitution Drafting Committee shall become the powers and duties of the Constitution Drafting Commission.
Section39/2.Once the National Reform Assembly has terminated in accordance with section 38, there shall never again be a National Reform Assembly according to this Constitution, and there shall, instead of a National Reform Assembly, be set up a National Reform Steering Assembly to bring about the reform in various fields according to section 27 in succession to the National Reform Assembly, in respect of which regard shall be had to the urgent importance and effectuality of the reform during the remaining period of time, and section 31, paragraph 1(1), and paragraph 2, shall apply mutatis mutandis.
The National Reform Steering Assembly shall be composed of Members numbering not more than two hundred, who are appointed by the Prime Minister from amongst the persons of the Thai nationality by birth and of the age not lower than thirty-five years, provided that the appointment be finished within thirty days reckoned from the day of termination of the National Reform Assembly.
The Prime Minister shall appoint [from amongst] the Members of the National Reform Steering Assembly one as President of the National Reform Steering Assembly and not more than two as Vice Presidents of the National Reform Steering Assembly, provided that this be in accordance with a resolution of the National Reform Steering Assembly.
Section 13, section 18, and section 29 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the National Reform Steering Assembly and Members of the National Reform Steering Assembly. But the issuance of a ruling in accordance with section 9, paragraph 2, shall become the power of the National Reform Steering Assembly.
Section39/3.Section 40 and section 41 shall also apply mutatis mutandis to the President, Vice Presidents, and Members of the National Reform Steering Assembly and the President and Members of the Constitution Drafting Commission."
Section9.The stipulations of paragraph 5 of section 46 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), 2557 Buddhist Era, shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:
