Volume 114Issue 72A
Royal Gazette
16 November 2540
“Section282.Whoever, in order to gratify the lust of another person, makes it his own business to procure, lures away, or carries away a man or woman for an indecent purpose, even with the consent of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment from one year to ten years and a fine from two thousand baht to twenty thousand baht.
If the offence under paragraph 1 is committed against a person who is older than fifteen years but still not than eighteen years, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment from three years to fifteen years and a fine from six thousand baht to thirty thousand baht.
If the offence under paragraph 1 is committed against a child who is still not older than fifteen years, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment from five years to twenty years and fine from ten thousand baht to forty thousand baht.
Whoever, in order to gratify the lust of another person, receives the person who has been procured, lured away, or carried away according to paragraph 1, 2, or 3, or aids in the commission of the mentioned offence, shall be punished as provided in paragraph 1, 2, or 3, as the case may be.
Section283.Whoever, in order to gratify the lust of another person, makes it his own business to procure, lures away, or carries away a man or woman for an indecent purpose by exercising a deceitful trick, threat, forcible violence, undue influence, or any other means of coercion, shall be punished with imprisonment from five years to twenty years and a fine from ten thousand baht to forty thousand baht.
If the offence under paragraph 1 is committed against a person who is older than fifteen years but still not than eighteen years, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment from seven years to twenty years and a fine from fourteen thousand baht to forty thousand baht, or imprisonment for life.
If the offence under paragraph 1 is committed against a person who is still not older than fifteen years, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment from ten years to twenty years and a fine from twenty thousand baht to forty thousand baht, or imprisonment for life, or death.
Whoever, in order to gratify the lust of another person, receives the person who has been procured, lured away, or carried away according to paragraph 1, 2, or 3, or aids in the commission of the mentioned offence, shall be punished as provided in paragraph 1, 2, or 3, as the case may be.”
Section5.The following dispositions shall be inserted in the Criminal Code as its section 283bis:
“Section283bis.Whoever carries away for an indecent purpose a person who is older than fifteen years but still not than eighteen years, even with the consent of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of not over five years, or a fine of not over ten thousand baht, or both the imprisonment and the fine.
If the offence under paragraph 1 is committed against a child who is still not older than fifteen years, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment of not over seven years, or a fine of not over fourteen thousand baht, or both the imprisonment and the fine.
