Section 1 This Act is be called the "Act Promulgating the Criminal Code, B.E. 2499 (1956)"
Section 2 This Act shall come into force as and from the day following the date of its publication in the Government Gazette.
Section 3 The Criminal Code annexed to this Act shall come into force as and from the 1st day of January, B.E. 2500.
Section 4 Upon coming into force of the Criminal Code, the Criminal Law in B.E. 2451 shall be repealed.
Section 5 Upon coming into force of the Criminal Code, in case of any law determines the punishment by referring to the punishment of the petty offences in the Criminal Law in B.E. 2451, it shall be deemed that such law refers to the punishment as follows:
If it refers to the punishment Class 1, it means fined not exceeding one hundred Baht;
If it refers to the punishment Class 2, it means fined not exceeding five hundred Baht;
If it refers to the punishment Class 3, it means imprisonment not exceeding ten days or fined not exceeding five hundred Baht, or both;
If is refers to the punishment Class 4, it means imprisonment not exceeding one month or fined not exceeding one thousand Baht, or both.
Section 6 Upon coming into force of the Criminal Code, in the matter of imprisonment in lieu of fined under any law, the provisions of the Criminal Code shall apply, regardless of whatever may have been provided by such and such law; but, as for the offences committed before the enforcement of the Criminal Code, the confinement shall not exceed one year for the punishment of one count, and two years for the punishment of several counts.
Section 7 In case of safety measures according to Section 46 of the Criminal Code, the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code shall apply as if it is a criminal offence, but the custody in the inquiring stage shall not exceed forty-eight hours as from the time when the arrested
person arrives at the Office of the Administrative or Police officer, but the time taken for ordinary journey in bringing the arrested person to the Court shall not be included in such period of forty-eight hours.
Section 8 Upon coming into force of the Criminal Code, whenever the provisions of any law refer to the Criminal Law in B.E. 2451, or the provisions of the Criminal Law in B.E. 2451, it shall be deemed that the provisions of such law refer to the Criminal Code, or the provisions of the Criminal Code in the Section implying the same sense, as the case may be.
Countersigned by
Field Marshal P. Pibulsongkarm
President of the Council of Ministers
Note: The reason of promulgating this Act viz Penal Law in R.S. 127 to have been promulgated long since and to have been amended by several points to be dispersed and so being expedient to be cleared up and to be brought into the form of the single Criminal Code. Moreover, to come to pass that some rules and procedures improved high to epoch and conception of international countries, and so, in the present time, some original rules are out of date, and expedient to be re-improved to be in line with administrative principle of democracy regime.
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