Volume 79, Special Issue
Royal Gazette
23 November 2505
Section11.A person who has a family name registered may permit any Thai national to share such family name by making an application to the local registrar of the locality the household register of which contains his name according to the law on civil registration.
The granting of permission according to this section shall be valid only when the local registrar has issued to the person who is to use the family name a certificate indicating that the use of the family name has been permitted.
Section12.A woman who has a husband shall use the family name of the husband.
Section13.A woman whose marriage ends by divorce shall return to her former family name.
Section14.A woman whose marriage ends by death of her husband shall use the family name of the husband.
Section15.A person who fosters children or owns a hospital, asylum, or child maintenance institution, if desiring to register a family name newly created for joint or separate use by the foster children or by the children at the said place who are Thai nationals without family names, shall make an application to the local registrar of the locality the household register of which contains his name according to the law on civil registration or of the locality where the said place is situated, and the provisions of paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 of section 9 shall apply mutatis mutandis.
