Article 269/5: Unlawful use of another person's electronic card
Texte légal (original thaï)
ผู้ใดใช้บัตรอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ของผู้อื่นโดยมิชอบ ในประการที่น่าจะก่อให้เกิดความเสียหายแก่ผู้อื่นหรือประชาชน ต้องระวางโทษจำคุกไม่เกินห้าปี หรือปรับไม่เกินหนึ่งแสนบาท หรือทั้งจำทั้งปรับ
traduction anglaise
Whoever unlawfully uses the electronic card of another person, in a manner likely to cause damage to another person or to the public, shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding five years, or a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand baht, or both.
ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified
Annotation de l'entreprise
Section 269/5 addresses a different wrong from the forging offences that precede it: the unauthorised use of a genuine electronic card belonging to another person. The elements are: (1) using the electronic card of another; (2) unlawfully, meaning without right or authority; and (3) a manner likely to cause damage to another person or to the public. No forged card is required. Because Section 1(14) defines an electronic card to include data, codes, and account numbers issued without any physical card, this Section reaches the unauthorised use of card numbers and online credentials, not only the physical plastic. The offence is drafted with a maximum only and no minimum, and the penalty is alternative, so a fine only sentence is available. Section 269/6 punishes possessing another person's card in order to put it into use, and Section 269/7 increases the penalty by one half where the card is a payment or cash withdrawal card, which is the ordinary case.
Pourquoi cela est important en pratique
This is the everyday offence for using a lost, stolen, found, or borrowed card without authority, and it is the provision most likely to affect an ordinary person rather than an organised fraud ring. Its practical bite is that repeated use multiplies liability: each transaction at a different time and for a different amount can be charged as a separate count. Two situations recur in practice. A spouse, employee, or family member who uses a card they were permitted to hold but not to use for that purpose is within the wording, because the authority is to hold, not to spend. And a person who uses a card belonging to someone who has died is not acting with authority, because the mandate ends at death. Charges under this Section are routinely accompanied by theft under Sections 334 and 335 for the money or goods obtained.
Cited in 22 Supreme Court decisions (2007 to 2025)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 20134/2556 (2013)
- Decision 16000/2553 (2010)
- Decision 52/2553 (2010)
- Decision 6820/2552 (2009)
- Decision 11227/2555 (2012)
- Decision 1151-1153/2564 (2021)
- Decision 1114/2563 (2020)
- Decision 3742/2556 (2013)
This list is selected automatically, weighted towards judgments that turn on this section rather than ones that merely recite it when passing sentence. It has not yet been reviewed by the firm.
Most often cited alongside
- Article 91 21
- Article 269/7 21
- Article 78 21
- Article 90 17
- Article 335 12
- Article 334 11
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Foire aux questions
Que couvre l'article 269/5 ?
L'article 269/5 punit l'importation ou l'exportation hors de Thaïlande d'une carte électronique contrefaite en vertu de l'article 269/2 ou de l'article 269/3, avec la même peine que l'infraction de contrefaçon sous-jacente.
Quelle est la sanction applicable à l'importation de cartes contrefaites ?
La peine est égale à celle de l'article en vertu duquel la carte a été falsifiée, donc l'importation d'une carte de paiement falsifiée en vertu de l'article 269/3 peut entraîner une peine d'emprisonnement de trois à dix ans et une amende.
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ป.อ. มาตรา 269/5 -
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