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Dated 10 December 2475
Royal Gazette
Volume 49, Page 547

(4)a resolution of no confidence passed by the House of Representatives.

Section52.In case of emergency in which it is unable to convene the House of Representatives in good time, the Monarch may enact an emergency decree to be applied as an act.

At the next meeting of the House of Representatives, Lord ordains that such emergency decree be introduced to the House for approbation. If approbated by the House, the emergency decree continues to be an act. If reprobated by the House, the emergency decree lapses; however, this does not affect the affairs which took place during the application of such emergency decree.

The expression by the House of the said approbation and reprobation shall, Lord says, be made as an act.

Section53.The Monarch promulgates martial law, according to the modes and procedure under the Martial Law Act.

Section54.The Monarch wields the prerogative to announce war, conclude written agreements[1] of peace or armistice, and conclude other written agreements with all countries.

Such announcement of war will be made only when it is not contrary to the provisions of the Covenant of the League of Nations.

  1. The traditional term nangsue sanya (Thai: หนังสือสัญญา) literally translates as "writing of agreement" (writing bearing an agreement). It is a compound consisting of nangsue ("writing") and sanya ("agreement"). In 2008, the Constitutional Court of Thailand ruled that the term nangsue sanya in the Constitution referred to a treaty (Khamwinitchai..., 2008, pp. 20–21).