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In terms of public participation and administrative procedural law, the
following considerations arise in relation to the organization of the bureaucratic

infrastructure.

Thailand’s administration is set up in accordance with Section 4 of the

State Administration Act B.E. 2534 (1991), which requires that the administrative
structure be divided into three parts:

1) Central administration
2) Provincial administration

3) Local administration

Thailand’s aforementioned three levels of administration contain the

elements of both centralization and decentralization. Namely, the central and
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provincial administrations are based on the principle of centralization, where the

final decision-making power rests with the central administrative body. At the
same time, the local administration is based on the principle of decentralization,

where the central administrative body delegates to the local administrative bodies
the authority to conduct certain activities in order to promote self-governance.

1. Central and provincial administration

Some important aspects of central and provincial administration are as

follows:

1.1 Relationship between government officials and their offices

Such relationship can be divided as follows:
a) Human resources management
The relationship between government agencies and their officers was

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34. Chanchai Sawangsak, Administrative Law: Annotated, Winyoochon Publishing (2 print),
November 2, 2017, at 133-134.

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