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Published on November 30, 2007

His request for the interpretation will be submitted to the Tribunal immediately if the paperwork for the process was completed by today.

The Constitution requires that any monetary law, which involves budgetary measures and management of state revenues, must be initiated by a government.

The controversial Act was initiated by the NLA, meaning that it could be ruled illegal due to its unlawful source of origin.

Meechai said the tribunal would not only consider the sole condition on whether the Act was a monetary law, but would rather decide whether the Act underwent lawful promulgation.

Hours after the NLA passed the Government Lottery Office Bill into law, a 30-member group of NLA members demanded the Constitution Tribunal interpret the new law before it is enacted. If enacted, the new law would revive the government's two- and three-digit lottery operations.

Sujit Bunbongkarn, one of the 30 NLA members, said the tribunal would consider mainly the spirit of the Act, not the letter of it.

"The conditions in dispute can be dropped and left out of the Act if they are not crucial, but if they are, the entire Act will be void," he added.

The Nation