Volume 123, Number 105A
Royal Gazette
3 October 2549
“Article23.There shall be a committee for consideration of nominations for conferral of the Order at sash levels, composed of—
(1) the Prime Minister or the authorised Deputy Prime Minister as President; (2) Deputy Prime Ministers as Members; (3) five Ministers appointed by the Prime Minister as Members; (4) the Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household as Member; (5) His Majesty’s Principal Private Secretary as Member; (6) the Secretary General of the Civil Service Commission as Member; (7) the Secretary General of the Cabinet as Member and Secretary; (8) a Deputy Secretary General of the Cabinet or Advisor to the Secretariat General of the Cabinet authorised by the Secretary General of the Cabinet as Member and Assistant Secretary; (9) the Director of the Office of Royal Scribes and Decorations, Secretariat General of the Cabinet as Member and Assistant Secretary. The committee under paragraph 1 shall have the powers and duties to consider nominations for conferral of the Order at every sash level upon the persons eligible to apply for conferral of the Order at sash levels and to also [consider nominations for conferral of] the Order at a level lower than sash upon the following persons:
(1)Privy Councillors;
(2)political public servants, Members of the National Assembly, and political parliamentary public servants;
(3)holders of positions in independent organisations according to the law;
(4)political public servants and holders of political positions in the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration according to the law regulating the public administration of Bangkok;
(5)spouses of the holders of the positions in the Schedules annexed to this Regulation, who are entitled to be considered for such conferral.