Volume 132, Issue 10A
Royal Gazette
13 February 2558
Act
Amending the Penal Code (No. 23),
2558 BE
Bhumibol Adulyadej R
Given on the 9th day of February 2558 BE
Being the 70th year of the present reign
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Paramin Maha Bhumibol Adulyadej gives a great royal command by which He orders with His pleasure that it be announced as follows:
Whereas it is appropriate to amend the Penal Code;
Therefore, by and with the advice and consent of the National Legislative Assembly, He orders with His gracious pleasure that the following Act be enacted:
Section1.This Act is called the "Act Amending the Penal Code (No. 23), 2558 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section 277 of the Penal Code, which have been amended by the Act Amending the Penal Code (No. 19), 2550 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:
"Section277.Whoever commits intercourse with a child aged still not over fifteen years who is not his own wife or her own husband, whether with or without the consent of that child, shall be punished with imprisonment from four years to twenty years and a fine from eighty thousand baht to four hundred thousand baht.
The intercourse under paragraph 1 refers to the doing [of any act] for satisfying the desire of the doer, in which the sex organ of the doer is used against the sex organ, anus, or oral cavity of another person or any other thing is used against the sex organ or anus of another person.
