Administrative Agencies and Public Services

Abstract

Act on Establishment of Administrative Courts and Administrative Court Procedure, 1999, Section 3, stipulates that ministries, bureaus, departments, government agencies called otherwise and having the status of departments, provincial government, local government, state enterprises established by an Act or Royal Decree or other government agencies and shall include an agency entrusted with exercising administrative power or carrying out administrative activities; as a "government agency". The important role of administrative agencies is to provide public services. The government agencies as the governing body must provide public services to meet the needs of the people in missions that cannot be assigned to other forms of organization to perform instead. But, if the government needs to carry out public service activities in commerce and industry, Acts or Royal decrees will be enacted to establish state enterprises with government agencies supervising their operations or if some missions are social and cultural public services and want freedom and flexibility in working without seeking profit, the state may establish other non-governmental agencies and non-state enterprises or in the form of public organizations to provide public services, including assigning private or professional organizations to exercise administrative power or carry out administrative activities on behalf of the state in the provision of public services as well.

Incidentally, the task of providing public service may not fully relate to the definition of an administrative agency in this sense because the definition of such administrative agencies. It is a matter of organizing the administration of the state in order to command, control or supervise the actions of administrative agencies or government officials to exercise their legitimate power in the provision of public services.