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Volume 73, Issue 95
Special Edition, Page 16
Royal Gazette

15 November 2499

takes into account the punishment under the subsequently prescribed law and finds it appropriate, the court may designate a lighter punishment than the minimum punishment designated by the subsequently prescribed law, if any, or if finding that the offender has sufficiently been punished, the court may release him;

(2)if the court has adjudged the offender to death and, according to the subsequently prescribed law, the punishment to be imposed upon the offender is not as serious as death, the imposition of death upon the offender shall be stayed and the death punishment according to the judgment shall be deemed to have changed to the highest punishment imposable under the subsequently prescribed law.

Section4.Whoever commits an offence in the Kingdom shall be punished in accordance with the law.

An offence committed on board a Thai vessel or Thai aircraft, regardless of wherever it may be, shall be deemed to have been committed in the Kingdom.

Section5.Any offence which has, even partially, been committed in the Kingdom, or the outcome of which occurs in the Kingdom whilst the offender desires for such an outcome to occur in the King-