Volume 114Issue 72A
Royal Gazette
16 November 2540
Whoever hides the person carried away according to paragraph 1 or 2 shall be punished as provided in paragraph 1 or 2, as the case may be.
The offences under paragraph 1 and 3 are compoundable only in the event that they are committed against persons who are older than fifteen years.”
Section6.The dispositions of section 284 of the Criminal Code, which has been amended by the Criminal Code Amendment Act (No 5), 2525 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following dispositions:
“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 dispositions shall be inserted in the Criminal 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 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.”
Countersignature
General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh
Prime Minister
