Volume 133, Issue 25A
Royal Gazette
22 March 2559
organise the referendum according to this section. And the Constitution Drafting Commission shall prepare an explanation of the material points of the draft constitution by summarising them in a manner allowing the people to easily understand the important contents of the draft constitution, and send [the explanation] to the Election Commission within fifteen days counted from the day after the day the Council of Ministers is notified."
Section4.The following stipulations shall be inserted as paragraph 4, paragraph 5, paragraph 6, paragraph 7, paragraph 8, paragraph 9, paragraph 10, paragraph 11, and paragraph 12 of section 39/1 in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), 2557 Buddhist Era, which has been amended by the Amendment to the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), 2557 Buddhist Era, (No. 1), 2558 Buddhist Era:
"It shall be the duty of the Election Commission to organise the referendum and announce the results of the referendum, and to have the draft constitution and the explanation of the material points of the draft constitution according to paragraph 3 printed for dissemination by whatever means which allows the people to easily and generally be informed thereof.
The criteria, procedure, and time limits for the organisation of the referendum, the qualifications and disqualifications of the persons having the right to vote in the referendum, the dissemination of the draft constitution and the explanation of the material points of the draft constitution, the casting of votes in the referendum, the counting of votes, the invalidity of ballots, and the announcement of the referendum results shall be as provided by the law.
The qualifications and disqualifications of the persons having the right to vote in the referendum must be close to the qualifications and disqualifications of the persons having the right to vote in the last election before the day of coming into force of this Constitution, save the age, [in respect of which] the persons aged not lower than eighteen years on the day of the referendum shall be the persons having the rights to vote in the referendum.
The referendum shall be organised for voting as to whether approval or disapproval should be given to the draft constitution in its entirety and must be held on the same day throughout the Kingdom. In this respect, the National Legislative Assembly may resolve to introduce not more than one other issue for which the Election Commission should organise on the same occasion an additional referendum for approval or disapproval. However, this must be introduced within fifteen days counted from the day after the day [the Assembly] is notified by the Election Commission in accordance with paragraph 3. For this purpose, the National Legislative Assembly shall also take the opinions of the National Reform Assembly into its consideration.
The Election Commission shall announce designating the day of the referendum, which must not be sooner than ninety days, but not later than one hundred and twenty days, counted from the day after the day the Constitution Drafting Committee sends the explanation of the material points of the draft constitution to the Election Commission in accordance with paragraph 3.
Subject to paragraph 12, in conducting the referendum according to this section, if the results of the referendum contain more votes of approval of the draft constitution than the votes of disapproval, the Prime Minister shall bring and present the draft constitution to [the Monarch] within thirty days counted from the day of announcement of the referendum results, and
