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Therefore, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives, He orders with His gracious pleasure that the following Act be enacted:

Section⁠1.⁠This Act is called the "Act Promulgating a Penal Code, 2499 BE".

Section⁠2.⁠This Act shall come into force from the day following the day of its publication in the Royal Gazette onwards.

Section⁠3.⁠The Penal Code at the end of this Act shall come into force from the 1st day of January 2500 BE^[1] onwards.

Section⁠4.⁠Once the [new] Penal Code has come into force, the [old] Penal Code^[2] shall be repealed.

Section⁠5.⁠Once the [new] Penal Code has come into force, if^[3] there is any law designating a punishment by referring to the punishment for a petty offence under the [old] Penal Code, such law shall be deemed to refer to the following punishment:

if it refers to the first class punishment, it means a fine not over one hundred baht;

if it refers to the second class punishment, it means a fine not over five hundred baht;

1. 1957.
2. In Thai, the code promulgated by the present Act is known as Pramuan Kotmai Aya (Thai: ประมวลกฎหมายอาญา; literally, "Compilation of Penal Laws") and the code promulgated by King Chulalongkorn in 1908 is known as Kotmai Laksana Aya (Thai: กฎหมายลักษณอาญา; literally, "Law on Penalties"). In English, both are known as Penal Code.