Volume 99, Issue 108
Royal Gazette
6 August 2525
Section3.The stipulations of section 276, section 277, section 277bis, section 277ter, section 278, section 279, and section 280 of the Penal Code, which have been amended by the Announcement of the Revolutionary Council No. 11 dated 21 November 2514 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:
"Section276.Whoever forcibly commits intercourse with another woman than his own wife by threatening in any manner, by exercising forcible violence, whilst the woman is being in a state of irresistibility, or by making the woman mistake him for a different person, shall be punished with imprisonment from four years to twenty years and a fine from eight thousand baht to forty thousand thousand baht.
If the offence under paragraph 1 is committed whilst having or by using a firearm or explosive or through a joint action characteristic of gang rape, it shall be punished with imprisonment from fifteen years to twenty years and a fine from thirty thousand baht to forty thousand baht, or life imprisonment.
Section277.Whoever commits intercourse with a girl aged not over thirteen years still, whether with or without the consent of that girl, shall be punished with imprisonment from seven years to twenty years and a fine from fourteen thousand baht to forty thousand baht, or life imprisonment.
If the offence under paragraph 1 is committed against the girl through a joint action characteristic of gang rape and without the consent of the girl, or is committed whilst having or by using a firearm or explosive, it shall be punished with life imprisonment.
