Volume 100, Issue 53
Royal Gazette
5 April 2526
(3)fifty years, in the event that the maximum rate of punishment carried by the heaviest count is imprisonment for ten years or more, save where the court imposes life imprisonment."
General P. Tinsulanonda
Prime Minister
Note: The grounds for promulgation of this Act are as follows: Since section 41[1] and section 91 of the Penal Code, which have been amended by the Announcement of the Revolutionary Council No. 11 dated 21 November 2514 BE, do not designate the maximum term of imprisonment for aggravated or consecutive sentences, but they designate that when an offence carries life imprisonment, the life imprisonment is to be changed to imprisonment for fifty years for the sake of the imposition of an aggravated or consecutive sentence, as the case may be, thus causing the aggravated imprisonment or the total [term of] imprisonment imposed upon consecutive counts in some cases to be excessively high or disproportionate to the different characteristics and degrees of severity of the offences, [and] causing the punishments to be unfair and not as efficacious as they should be; it is appropriate to amend the provisions of the said two sections, by designating the maximum term of imprisonment for aggravated sentences and the total term of imprisonment for consecutive sentences, so that the punishments be more fair and effectual. Therefore, it is necessary to enact this Act.
