Volume 136, Issue 69A
Royal Gazette
27 May 2562
"If the offence under paragraph 1 is committed by penetrating the sex organ or anus of such person with any object or bodily organ other than the sex organ, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment from four years to twenty years and a fine from eighty thousand baht to four hundred thousand baht.
If the offence under paragraph 2 is committed by making the victim understand that the offender has a firearm or explosive, it shall be punished with imprisonment from seven years to twenty years and a fine from one hundred and forty thousand baht to four hundred thousand baht.
If the offence under paragraph 2 is committed whilst having a firearm or explosive, or by using a weapon, or through a joint action characteristic of gang rape against a woman or action of identical characteristics against a man, it shall be punished with imprisonment from fifteen years to twenty years and a fine from three hundred thousand baht to four hundred thousand baht, or life imprisonment."
Section9.The stipulations of section 279 and section 280 of the Penal Code, which have been amended by the Act Amending the Penal Code (No. 26), 2560 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:
"Section279.Whoever commits indecency with a child aged still not over fifteen years, whether with or without the consent of that child, shall be punished with imprisonment not over ten years, or a fine not over two hundred thousand baht, or both the imprisonment and the fine.
If the offence under paragraph 1 is committed against a child aged still not over thirteen years, it shall be punished with imprisonment from one year to ten years, or a fine from twenty thousand baht to two hundred thousand baht, or both the imprisonment and the fine.
If the offender commits the offence under paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 by threatening in any manner, by exercising forcible violence, whilst the child is being in a state of irresistibility, or by making the child mistake him for a different person, he shall be punished with a punishment of imprisonment from one year to fifteen years, or a fine from twenty thousand baht to three hundred thousand baht, or both the imprisonment and the fine.
If the offence under paragraph 1 or paragraph 3 is committed by penetrating the sex organ or anus of the child with any object or bodily organ other than the sex organ, it shall be punished with imprisonment from five years to twenty years and a fine from one hundred thousand baht to four hundred thousand baht.
If the offence under paragraph 4 is committed against a child aged still not over thirteen years, it shall be punished with imprisonment from seven years to twenty years and a fine from one hundred and forty thousand baht to four hundred thousand baht, or imprisonment for life.
If the offence under paragraph 4 or paragraph 5 is committed by making the victim understand that the offender has a firearm or explosive, it shall be punished with imprisonment from ten years to twenty years and a fine from two hundred thousand baht to four hundred thousand baht, or life imprisonment.
