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The period of time under paragraph one shall be counted up to the date of application
or the date of nomination as the case may be.
Section 9. In addition to the qualifications specified under Section 8, a Commissioner
shall also possess the following qualifications:
(1) being of Thai nationality by birth;
(2) being not less than forty-five years but not more than seventy years of age;
(3) having graduated with a degree not lower than a Bachelor or its equivalent;
(4) having manifested evident integrity;
(5) being sufficiently in good health to perform duties efficiently.
Section 10. A Commissioner must not be under any of the prohibitions as follows:
(1) being or having been a judge of the Constitutional Court or holding a position in any
Independent Organ;
(2) being addicted to narcotics drugs;
(3) being bankrupt or used to be bankrupt due to corruption;
(4) being the owner of, or a shareholder in any newspaper or media business;
(5) being a Buddhist monk, Buddhist novice, ascetic or priest;
(6) being under revocation of voting rights, regardless of the finality of the case;
(7) being of unsound mind or of mental infirmity;
(8) being under temporary suspension of the right to stand for election, or being
deprived of the right to stand for election;
(9) having been sentenced to imprisonment and being detained by a court warrant;
(10) having been dismissed from official service, a state agency or a state enterprise on
the grounds of corruption in the course of duty or being deemed as having
committed corruption or misconduct in the official service;
(11) having been ordered by a final judgment or court order for assets to become
properties of the state on the grounds of unusual wealth, or having been sentenced
by a final judgment to imprisonment on the grounds of committing an offence
under anti-corruption law;
(12) having been convicted by a final judgment for committing: a malfeasance in public
office or in judicial office; an offence under the law on an offence corruptly
committed against property under the Criminal Code; an offence under the law on
loans of money amounting to public fraud; an offence of being a producer,
importer, exporter or trader under Narcotics Act; an offence of being a host or a
proprietor under Gambling Act; an offence under the Prevention and Suppression of