Section16.The House of Representatives[1] is composed of the Members who are elected by the people.
Section17.Qualifications of the electors and electoral candidates, as well as the electoral procedure and the number of the Members, shall be in accordance with the law on elections of Members of the House of Representatives.
Section18.Members of the House of Representatives shall be in their positions for a term of four years. If a position of Member becomes vacant for any other reason than retirement by rotation, a replacing Member shall be elected to fill the vacant position, but the Member admitted to fill the vacancy shall only be in the position for [a period] equivalent to the time limit pertaining to the person replaced by them.
Section19.Prior to assuming duties, a Member of the House of Representatives must affirm at a meeting of the House that he will preserve and observe this Constitution.
Section20.The Members of the House of Representatives do represent all the Siamese people, not only the persons electing them. They must perform the duties in accordance with their own wholehearted[2] opinion without being subject to any mandate or commitment.
- ↑ The name of the organisation, Sapha Phuthaen Ratsadon (Thai: สภาผู้แทนราษฎร), literally translates as "Assembly of People's Deputies". But its official title in English is "House of Representatives".
- ↑ The idiom borisut chai (Thai: บริสุทธิ์ใจ), here translated as "wholehearted", literally translates as "[with] pure heart" or "mentally pure". It is a compound consisting of borisut ("pure, innocent") and chai ("heart, mind"). The Royal Society of Thailand (2013) defines it as "sincere, genuine, not adulterated by any other intention".
