Volume 114, Issue 72A
Royal Gazette
16 November 2540
Whoever hides the person carried away according to paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 shall be punished as prescribed in paragraph 1 or paragraph 2, as the case may be.
The offences under paragraph 1 and paragraph 3 are compoundable only in the event that they are committed against persons aged over fifteen years."
Section6.The stipulations of section 284 of the Penal Code, which have been amended by the Act Amending the Penal Code (No. 5), 2525 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:
"Section284.Whoever carries another person away 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 one year to ten years and a fine from two thousand baht to twenty thousand baht.
Whoever hides the person carried away according to paragraph 1 shall be punished in the same manner as the carrier.
The offences under this section are compoundable."
Section7.The following stipulations shall be inserted in the Penal Code as section 312ter:
"Section312ter.Whoever dishonestly takes in, disposes of, makes it his own business to procure, lures away, or carries away a person aged over fifteen years but still not over eighteen years, even with the consent of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment not over five years, or a fine not over ten thousand baht, or both the imprisonment and the fine.
If the offence under paragraph 1 is committed against a child aged not over fifteen years still, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment not over seven years, or a fine not over fourteen thousand baht, or both the imprisonment and the fine."
General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh
Prime Minister
