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;