Parliamentary Administration

Abstract

This article is to examine the Administration of Parliament involve the authorities, functions, personal administration and the budgeting procedures of government agencies under the jurisdiction of Parliament that would be conducive to greater efficiency in the work of the National Assembly, the House of Representatives and the Senate under the Constitution. At present, the Administration of Parliament is under Parliamentary administration Act, B.E.2554 (2011) and Rules for Parliamentary Official Service Act, B.E.2554 (2011) has several problems on the implementation. Therefore, it is necessary to amend the Acts for Parliamentary Agencies in according to support functions of the Parliament completely as a following; 1) Parliamentary Agencies shall have the authorities to organize on functions, personal administration and the budgeting coherently. In addition, this is necessary to revise the Parliament Official Commission Rule, orders and regulations on personal administration in accordance with the parliamentary core functions. 2) Parliamentary Agencies shall be independent on budgeting by the intention of the Constitution and the Law on the Administration of Parliament, this is necessary to amend that Parliamentary Agencies shall be the independent constitutional Agency. 3) The Regulatory Commission should be appointed for acting as the Parliamentary Officials Commission. It is also to revises the qualification of the qualified Parliamentary Officials Commission and powers and duties of the Parliamentary Officials Commission to response only personnel administration. This is because of the relations between political and parliamentary service shall be affected to the administration of Parliamentary Agencies.