Volume 76, Issue 73
Royal Gazette
21 July 2502
Therefore, by and with the advice and consent of the Constitution Drafting Assembly in its capacity as the National Assembly, He orders with His gracious pleasure that the following Act be enacted:
Section1.This Act is called the "Act Amending the Penal Code, 2502 BE".
Section2.This Act shall come into force from the day following the day of its publication in the Royal Gazette onwards.
Section3.The stipulations of section 147 of the Penal Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:
"Section147.Whoever, being an officer having the duty to buy, create, manage, or preserve any thing, dishonestly converts such thing to himself or to another person, or dishonestly allows another person to take such thing, shall be punished with imprisonment from five years to twenty years, or imprisonment for life, and a fine from two thousand baht to forty thousand baht.
Section4.The stipulations of section 148 of the Penal Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:
"Section148.Whoever, being an officer, wrongfully exercises a power in office, commits coercion, or exercises inducement in order to make any person give or fetch him or another person property or any other benefit,
