A. General qualifications
(1) Being of Thai nationality by birth;
(2) Being of not less than thirty-five years of age, but not more than seventyyears of age;
B. Prohibitions
(1) Not being a person holding a political position;
(2) Not being a holder of any position of a political party;
(3) Not being of unsound mind or of mental infirmity;
(4) Not being addicted to drugs;
(5) Not being a bankrupt or having been a bankrupt on the grounds of
corruption;
(6) Not having been sentenced by a judgment to imprisonment and being
detained by a warrant of the Court;
(7) Not having been sentenced by a final judgment except for an offense
committed through negligence, a petty offense or defamation;
(8) Not having been expelled, dismissed or removed from official service, state
agency or state enterprise or private agency on the grounds of dishonest performance of
duties or gross misbehavior or deemed as having committed dishonest act or malfeasant
in the official service;
(9) Not having been ordered by a judgment or an order of the Court that his or
her assets shall vest in the state on the grounds of unusual wealth or unusual increase of
assets;
(10) Not being a judge of the Constitutional Court, Election Commissioner,
Ombudsman, member of the National Anti-corruption Commission, member of the State
Audit Commission or member of the National Human Rights Commission;
(11) Not having been removed from office by the resolution of the Senate;
(12) Not being or having been in the past a member of the Board of Directors,
executive officer, advisor, employee, shareholder or partner in a company or partnership
or any other juristic person carrying out broadcasting or telecommunications business for
the period of one year before having been nominated under Section 10 or before having
been selected under Section 15;
(13) Not being under the prohibition from holding a political position.
Section 8. The commissioner shall not
(1) be a government official holding a permanent position or receiving
salaries;