Volume 132, Number 64A
Royal Gazette
15 July 2558
In such event, the President of the National Reform Assembly or President of the National Legislative Assembly shall introduce the issue to the Cabinet for consideration. If the Cabinet approves any issue, it shall notify the Election Commission thereof within fifteen days from the day of its receipt of the resolution of the National Reform Assembly or National Legislative Assembly, and the Election Commission shall organise a referendum for such issue on the same occasion as the referendum on the draft constitution, in respect of which the majority of votes shall be adhered to.
The adoption of a resolution to introduce an issue in accordance with paragraph 2 shall be conducted by the National Reform Assembly on the same day as the adoption of a resolution to approve or disapprove the draft constitution, and the National Legislative Assembly shall adopt its resolution within three days from the day the National Reform Assembly adopted the resolution approving the draft constitution.
The Election Commission shall, by announcement, designate the day for the referendum under paragraph 4, which must not be sooner than thirty days, but not later than forty-five days, from the day the Election Commission successfully sends the draft constitution to the persons having the right to vote in the referendum [in the number] not less than eighty per cent of the total households in the household registers of which the names of the persons having the right to vote in the referendum are contained.
In the referendum, the persons having the right to vote must be qualified and not disqualified in the same manner as the persons having the right to vote in the last general election before the day of coming into force of this Constitution. And, subject to section 37/1, if the majority of the persons having the right to vote in the referendum approves the draft constitution, the Prime Minister shall bring and present the draft constitution to [the Monarch] within thirty days from the day of announcement of the referendum results, and once [the Monarch] has signed it, it shall be published in the Royal Gazette and become applicable, provided that it be also countersigned by the Prime Minister.
In the event that the Monarch disapproves the draft constitution and gives it back, or when He fails to give it back within ninety days, the draft constitution shall lapse.”
Section6.The following provisions shall be inserted in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), 2557 Buddhist Era, as section 37/1:
“Section37/1.In the event that the Cabinet approves the organisation of a referendum for an additional issue according to section 37, paragraph 4, and the majority of the persons voting in the referendum approves the said issue, resulting in provisions of the draft constitution to be incompatible with the referendum result, the Constitution Drafting Committee shall effect, and finish within thirty days from the day of announcement of the referendum results, amendments to the relevant parts of the draft constitution so that they be compatible with the referendum results, and shall send the said draft constitution to the Constitutional Court for consideration as to whether or not it is in line with the referendum results, in respect of which the Constitutional Court must finish its consideration within thirty days from the day of its receipt of the draft constitution. If the Constitutional Court finds that the amendments are already compatible with the referendum results; or in the event that the Constitutional Court finds any provision not yet compatible with the referendum results and sends the draft constitution
