Volume 132, Issue 86A
Royal Gazette
8 September 2558
Section4.The following stipulations shall be inserted in the Penal Code as section 287/1 and section 287/2 of Title 9 Offences relating to sexuality:
"Section287/1.Whoever possesses child pornography for sexual exploitation in favour of himself or another person, shall be punished with imprisonment not over five years, or a fine not over one hundred thousand baht, or both the imprisonment and the fine.
If the offender under paragraph 1 forwards the child pornography to another person, he shall be punished with imprisonment not over seven years, or a fine not over one hundred and forty thousand baht, or both the imprisonment and the fine.
Section287/2.Whoever—
(1)for purposes of trade or through trade, for distribution, or for exhibition to the public, creates, manufactures, possesses, brings into or causes to be brought into the Kingdom, sends out or causes to be sent out of the Kingdom, carries or causes to be carried to [any place], or circulates by any means child pornography;
(2)conducts trade or takes part in or involves himself in trade relating to child pornography; distributes or exhibits to the public or hires out child pornography;
(3)in order to help circulating or trading in child pornography, publishes or disseminates by any means the information that a person is committing an act which constitutes the offence under this section, or publishes or disseminates the information as to the person from whom or the way by which child pornography could be found;
shall be punished with imprisonment from three years to ten years and a fine from sixty thousand baht to two hundred thousand baht."
General Prayut Chan-o-cha
Prime Minister
