Volume 124, Issue 42A
Royal Gazette
15 August 2550
Section4.The following stipulations shall be inserted in the Penal Code as (2/2) of section 8:
"(2/2)offences relating to passports, as prescribed in section 269/8 through section 269/15".
Section5.The following stipulations shall be inserted in Division 2 Offences, of the Penal Code, as Chapter 5 Offences relating to passports, section 269/8, section 269/9, section 269/12, section 269/11, section 269/12, section 269/13, section 269/14, and section 269/15 of Title 7 Offences relating to forgery and alteration:
"Chapter 5
Offences relating to passports
Section269/8.Whoever forges a passport in whole or in part, causes information to be added to or abridged from or by any means modifies a genuine passport, or affixes a false seal or puts a false signature to a passport in a manner likely to cause injury to another person or the public, shall be punished with imprisonment from one year to ten years and a fine from twenty thousand baht to two hundred thousand baht, if he does so in order to make any person erroneously believe that it is a genuine passport.
Section269/9.Whoever uses or possesses for use a forged passport according to section 269/8 shall be punished with imprisonment from one year to ten years and a fine from twenty thousand baht to two hundred thousand baht.
Whoever disposes of or possesses for disposal a forged passport according to section 269/8 shall be punished with imprisonment from three years to twenty years and a fine from sixty thousand baht to four hundred thousand baht.
The possession of two or more forged passports according to section 269/8 shall, in the first place, be presumed to be the possession for disposal.
If the offender under paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 is the one who forged the passport in accordance with section 269/18, he shall be punished in accordance with this section on a single count only.
Section269/10.Whoever brings into or sends out of the Kingdom a forged passport according to section 269/8 shall be punished with imprisonment from one year to ten years and a fine from twenty thousand baht to two hundred thousand baht.
If the offence under paragraph 1 is committed for disposal, it shall be punished with imprisonment from three years to twenty years and a fine from sixty thousand baht to four hundred thousand baht.
