Volume 125, Issue 30A
Royal Gazette
7 February 2551
"Section20.If an offence punishable under the Thai law has been committed outside the Kingdom of Thailand, the Attorney General or person acting as such shall become the inquiry official in charge or he may delegate such a duty to any public prosecutor or inquiry official, authorising the latter to take charge of the inquiry on his behalf.
In the event that the Attorney General or person acting as such authorise any inquiry official to take charge of the inquiry, the Attorney General or person acting as such may authorise any public prosecutor to participate with the inquiry official in conducting the inquiry.
The public prosecutor authorised to take charge of the inquiry or to participate with an inquiry official in conducting the inquiry shall have the same powers and duties of inquiry as the inquiry official does. All the other powers and duties provided by the law shall become the powers and duties of the public prosecutor.
In the event that the inquiry is conducted by the participation of a public prosecutor and an inquiry official, the inquiry official shall follow the orders and advice given by the public prosecutor with respect to the collection of evidence.
In the event of necessity, the following inquiry officials have the power to carry the inquiry on whilst awaiting order from the Attorney General or person acting as such:
(1)the inquiry official in whose jurisdiction the alleged offender was arrested;
(2)the inquiry official called upon by the government of the foreign country which or the person who has been injured to bring the alleged offender to punishment.
When the public prosecutor or inquiry official, as the case may be, who is in charge od the inquiry, finds that the inquiry is finished, he shall make an opinion according to section 140, section 141, or section 142, and send it together with the file to the Attorney General or person acting as such."
General Surayud Chulanont
Prime Minister
