Volume 76, Issue 17
Royal Gazette
28 January 2502
a great royal command by which He orders with His pleasure that the following provisions be applied as an Administrative Charter of the Kingdom until promulgation of the constitution which is to be drawn up by the Constitution Drafting Assembly:
Section1.The sovereign power comes from all the Thais.
Section2.Thailand is one and whole kingdom incapable of division. The Monarch is the Divine Head [of State] and holds the position of Head of the Thai Armed Forces.
Section3.The person of the Monarch dwells in the position of revered worship, which shall no one violate.
Section4.There shall be a Privy Council with [Members] numbering not more than nine. The appointment and vacation of positions of Privy Councilors shall be at the royal pleasure.
Section5.The Monarch enacts acts for application by and with the advice and consent of the National Assembly.
The Council of Ministers exercises the executive power and the courts exercise the judicial power. All this shall be done in the name of the Monarch.
Section6.There shall be a Constitution Drafting Assembly which has the duty to draft a constitution and which shall also be in the capacity of a National Assembly discharging legislative duties.
