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 The Head of the National Council for Peace and Order shall countersign the appointment of Members of the National Reform Assembly and the President and Vice Presidents of the National Reform Assembly.

A Member of the National Reform Assembly must not have the disqualifications under section 8(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), and (9), and the stipulations of section 9 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the end of the membership of a Member of the National Reform Assembly, but the giving of a ruling according to section 9, paragraph 2, shall become the power of the National Reform Assembly.

The National Council for Peace and Order shall select the persons appropriate to be appointed as Members of the National Reform Assembly, according to the following criteria:

there shall be commissions for recruitment of persons in the fields provided in section 27, one commission for each field, and there shall be, in each province, a provincial recruitment commission for recruitment of persons domiciled in that province;

the National Council for Peace and Order shall establish the commission for recruitment of persons in each field from the competent persons whose knowledge and experience are accepted by the persons in such field;

the recruitment commissions shall recruit the persons who are qualified according to section 28, are not disqualified according to section 29, and have recognised knowledge and ability in each field, and shall prepare a list of their names and submit it to the National Council for Peace and Order, in respect of which no [member of a] recruitment commission may submit his own name;

in recruiting persons according to (3), regard shall be had to the diversity of persons from all the groups in the public sector, private sector, social sector, academic sector, professional sector, and other sectors which would be of use to the performance of duties by the National Reform Assembly; the distribution [of persons] according to provinces; the opportunities and sexual equality; and disadvantages of people;

the provincial recruitment commissions shall be composed of such persons as designated in a royal decree;

the National Council for Peace and Order shall select from the name list submitted by the recruitment commissions under (1) not more than two hundred and fifty persons found appropriate to be appointed as Members of the National Reform Assembly, of whom a number shall be selected from amongst the persons nominated by the provincial recruitment commissions, one per each province.

The number of the members of each recruitment commission, the procedure for the recruitment, the time limit governing the recruitment, the number of the persons needed to be recruited, and other necessary affairs shall be as designated in a royal decree.

The National Reform Assembly shall have the following powers and duties:

to study, analyse, and prepare guidelines and recommendations for the reform in the various fields under section 27, and submit them to the National Legislative Assembly, the Cabinet, the National Council for Peace and Order, and relevant agencies;

to submit opinions or recommendations to the Constitution Drafting Committee for the benefit of the preparation of a draft constitution;

to consider and approve the draft constitution prepared by the Constitution Drafting Committee.