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Volume 131, Issue 55A
Page 13
Royal Gazette

22 July 2557

(8)an efficient mechanism to allow the cost-effective spending of state money in response to the common benefit of the people and in compliance with the financial and fiscal conditions of the Country, and an efficient mechanism to scrutinise and disclose the spending of state money;

(9)an efficient mechanism to prevent the destroying of important principles to be laid down by the constitution;

(10)a mechanism to perfectly push forwards the reform of important matters.

The Constitution Drafting Committee shall consider the necessity and cost-effectiveness of keeping in existence constitutional organisations or organisations established by virtue of constitutional powers. In the case that it is necessary to keep [any organisation] in existence, [the Committee] shall consider measures for enabling such organisation to operate in an efficient and effective manner also.

Section36.The Constitution Drafting Committee shall introduce the finished draft constitution to the President of the National Reform Assembly, and the President of the National Reform Assembly shall arrange for meetings of the National Reform Assembly at which the consideration and making of recommendations or giving of opinions [on the draft] shall be finished within ten days counted from the day of receipt of the draft constitution.

Members of the National Reform Assembly may apply for amending the draft constitution within thirty days counted from the day the National Reform Assembly finishes the consideration according to paragraph 1. An amendment application of a Member of the National Reform Assembly must be countersigned by not less than one tenth of the number of the Members of the National Reform Assembly, and a Member of the National Reform Assembly who has filed an application or countersigned an application of another Member can no longer file another application or countersign an application of another Member.

The Constitution Drafting Committee shall also send the draft constitution to the Council of Ministers and the National Council for Peace and Order. And the Council of Ministers or the National Council for Peace and Order may introduce its opinions [thereon] or apply for amendment [thereof] within thirty days counted from the day of its receipt of the draft constitution.

Amendment applications shall be filed with the President of the Constitution Drafting Committee.

Section37.The Constitution Drafting Committee shall finish considering the amendment applications within sixty days counted from the day of completion of the [time] limit for the making of amendment applications according to section 36, paragraph 2. In this respect, the Constitution Drafting Committee may amend the draft constitution as it finds appropriate.

Once the Constitution Drafting Committee has amended the draft constitution according to paragraph 1, it shall introduce the draft constitution to the National Reform Assembly for consideration of and giving of approval or disapproval to that draft constitution in its entirety, in respect of which the National Reform Assembly must adopt a resolution within fifteen days counted from the day of its receipt of the draft constitution from the Constitution Drafting Committee. However, the National Reform Assembly shall make no amendment to the contents of the draft constitution, save where it is for immaterial errors and is approved by the Constitution Drafting Committee, or where the Constitution Drafting Committee finds that the amendment is necessary for enhancement of perfection.