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Volume 49, Page 169
Royal Gazette
Dated 27 June 2475

If the Monarch has not promulgated an act within a period of seven days from the day of His receipt of such act from the House, He has the power to return the act, with a statement of His reasons for refusing to sign it, to the House for reconsideration. If the House resolves to affirm the original resolution and the Monarch dissents therefrom, the House has the power to promulgate the act as a law.

Section9.The House of People’s Representatives has the power to oversee the affairs of the Country and has the power to hold meetings at which it may remove any Members of the People’s Committee or government officials.

Section10.In the House of People’s Representatives, there must be Members as per the following periods:

First Period

From the day this Constitution comes into force onwards and until the time the Members in the Second Period assume office, the People’s Party, on whose behalf the Council of Military Defenders of the Kingdom is exercising powers, shall appoint interim People’s Representatives, who are seventy in number, as Members of the House.[1]

  1. In the Thai text, these officers are classified with the masculine classifier nai (Thai: นาย), which probably implies that these positions were only for males. (Wikisource contributor note)