"Thailand's National Legislative Assembly accepted the Retail Business Act to deal with retail and wholesale businesses nationwide.
The NLA voted 97-6 to approve the government's legislation in principle and set up a 24-person extraordinary committee to scrutinise the bill which calls for the Commerce Ministry to form a committee to set policies and measures to promote as well as regulate retail and wholesale trade in fuel, jewellery and newspapers, among others, so that the businesses will be carried out in a fair, equal and competitive fashion.
Commerce Minister Kirkkrai Jirapaet said the bill will by no means obstruct any large-scale enterprises which may deal in retail and wholesale businesses, though an estimated 100,000 local retail stores nationwide had already gone out of business in the face of the giant stores over the past four years.
Neither was the legislation designed to thwart the running of local retail and wholesale businesses in fair competition with the giant stores -- against which local traders and the public in some 40 provinces had already strongly protested, according to the commerce minister.
NLA member Ammar Siamwalla described the legislation as ill-defined and suggested retail and wholesale businesses nationwide should be supervised by local administrative bodies instead of the Commerce Ministry."
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/b...s.php?id=123596
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NLA passes new Retail Business Act
Started by Sexpat, Nov 15 2007 09:40 AM
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Posted 15 November 2007 - 11:29 AM
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The NLA voted 97-6 to approve the government's legislation in principle
Once again, it looks like the junta's rump parliament is intent on passing all sorts of legislation before the new Parliament is elected, but seemingly without a quorum of 125 of its 250 members being present
I'd love to know how they are meeting and passing laws with 103 total votes. I can just see the court case in 2008, after the new Parliament has been seated, arguing that all of these NLA bills being rushed into laws now were invalid because there was no quorum present to do business. I also wonder where all these absent members are. You don't suppose they're still drawing salaries, do you ?
