2 The characteristic that the central government line controlled and supervised the autonomy line.
3 The characteristic that adopted different principles of representation within a context of urban and rural areas.(The local government is divided into urban and rural based)
Decentralization according to the laws for local government
In the 1997 Constitution and the Determining Plans and Process of Decentralisation to Local Government Organisation Act,B.E.2545 (1999), the government set out a decentralisation plan for local government.