Volume 122Issue 58A
Royal Gazette
16 July 2548
The provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code relating to the procedure of the application for a criminal warrant shall apply mutatis mutandis to the application for the permission of the court under paragraph 1.
Section13.If the articles or appliances announced in accordance with section 11(9) are devices used for communication or are parts thereof, the Prime Minister may announce that the mentioned measures be applied throughout the Kingdom or in other areas than those where the state of emergency has been announced.
Section14.The ordinances, announcements, and orders made under sections 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, and 15 shall also be published in the Royal Gazette upon entry into operation.
Section15.The competent officers or persons having the same powers and duties as the competent officers under this Emergency Decree shall be the officers under the Criminal Code and shall have the powers and duties of the administrative or police officials under the Criminal Procedure Code as designated by announcements of the Prime Minister.
Section16.The ordinances, announcements, orders, or acts done under this Emergency Decree are not subject to the law on administrative procedure and the law on establishment of administrative courts and administrative case procedure.
Section17.The competent officers and the persons having the same powers and duties as the competent officers under this Emergency Decree are not liable, whether civilly, criminally, or disciplinarily, on account of the performance of duties of abating or preventing illegal acts, if they acted in good faith, without discrimination, and within moderate or necessary limits. But this does not exclude the rights of the injured persons to claim damages from the public sector according to the law on tort liabilities of officials.
Section18.Anyone who contravenes an ordinance, announcement, or order issued in accordance with section 9, 10, 11, or 13, shall be punished with imprisonment of not over two years, or a fine not over forty thousand baht, or both the imprisonment and the fine.
Section19.The Prime Minister shall be in charge of the implementation of this Emergency Decree.
Countersignature
Police Lieutenant Colonel Thaksin Shinawatra
Prime Minister
