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Volume 133Issue 77A
Page 1
Royal Gazette

1 September 2559
Seal of the Royal Command
Seal of the Royal Command

Amendment (No 3)
of 2559 Buddhist Era
to the Constitution of the Kingdom of
Thailand (Interim), 2557 Buddhist Era

Bhumibol Adulyadej R
Given on the 30th day of August 2559 BE
Being the 71st year of the present reign

His Majesty King Maha Bhumibol Adulyadej is pleased to give a Great Royal Command that it be announced as follows:

Whereas it is appropriate to amend the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), 2557 Buddhist Era;

Therefore, He is graciously pleased to enact the following Amendment to the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), 2557 Buddhist Era:

Section1.This Constitution is called the Amendment (No 3) of 2559 Buddhist Era to the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), 2557 Buddhist Era.

Section2.This Constitution shall enter into operation from the day following the day of its publication in the Royal Gazette onwards.

Section3.The disposition of paragraph 1 of section 6 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), 2557 Buddhist Era, shall be repealed and replaced by the following disposition:

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“Section6.There shall be a National Legislative Assembly composed of not more than two hundred and fifty Members who are appointed by the Monarch from amongst the persons of Thai nationality by birth and not younger than forty years of age, according to the advice presented to Him by the National Council for Peace and Order.”

Section4.The Members of the National Legislative Assembly in office on the day before the day of promulgation of this Constitution shall become Members of the National Legislative Assembly under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), 2557 Buddhist Era, as amended hereby.

Countersignature
General Prayut Chan-o-cha
Prime Minister

​Note: The grounds for promulgation of this amendment to the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), 2557 Buddhist Era, are as follows: Whereas it is appropriate to amend the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), 2557 Buddhist Era, with respect to the number of the Members of the National Legislative Assembly, so that the performance of duties by the National Legislative Assembly and the consideration of the draft organic acts and laws which need to be enacted in accordance with the draft constitution approved in the referendum on the 7th day of August 2559 would proceed in an expeditious and efficient manner; it is therefore necessary to enact this Constitution.

 This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content.

Original:

This work is in the public domain worldwide because it originated in Thailand and is a work under section 7(2) of Thailand's Copyright Act, 2537 BE (1994) (WIPO translation), which provides:

7. The following shall not be deemed copyright works under this Act:

  1. news of the day and facts having the character of mere information, not being works in the literary, scientific or artistic fields;
  2. the constitution and legislation;
  3. regulations, bylaws, notifications, orders, explanations and official correspondence of the Ministries, Departments or any other government or local units;
  4. judicial decisions, orders, decisions and official reports;
  5. translations and collections of the materials referred to in items (1) to (4), made by the Ministries, Departments or any other government or local units.

For any other work that was created or commissioned by the Thai Government, it is in the public domain if at least 50 years have elapsed since its first publication or it was not published within 50 years of authorship.

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Translation:

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

In case this is not legally possible:

I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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