Section 1 มาตรา ๑

In this Code:
(1) "Dishonestly" means to acquire any advantage, for oneself or for another person, to which one is not entitled by law;
(2) "Public way" means any land or waterway used by the public for the purpose of traffic, including railways and tramways;
(3) "Public place" means any place to which the public has a right of access;
(4) "Dwelling place" means any place used as a dwelling, such as a house, building, boat or raft where people reside, and includes the compound of such place, whether or not enclosed by a fence;
(5) "Weapon" includes any thing which is not a weapon by its nature but which has been used or intended to be used to cause grievous bodily harm;
(6) "Use of force" means doing any act of violence against the body or mind of a person, whether by the use of physical force or by any other means, and includes any act which causes a person to be in a state of being unable to resist, whether by administering intoxicants, by hypnosis, or by any other similar means;
(7) "Document" means any paper or other thing on which a meaning is expressed by letters, figures, drawings or any other design, whether by printing, photographing or any other means, which can serve as evidence of such meaning;
(8) "Official document" means a document which a public officer has drawn up or certified in the exercise of his functions, and includes copies of such documents certified by a public officer;
(9) "Document of right" means a document which serves as evidence of the creation, transfer, modification, reservation or extinction of a right;
(10) "Signature" includes a fingerprint or mark affixed by a person in lieu of his signature;
(11) "Night-time" means the period between sunset and sunrise;
(12) "Custody" means taking into custody, detention, confinement, imprisonment or incarceration;
(13) "Ransom" means property or any benefit demanded or given in exchange for the liberty of a person who has been taken away, detained or confined;
(14) "Electronic card" means:
(a) A document or any other thing of any form issued by an issuer to a person entitled to use it, whether identified by name or not, by recording data or a code by the application of electronic, electrical, electromagnetic or any other similar method, including data stored as a code in a card or device for withdrawal of cash, transfer of payment, purchase of goods or services through an electronic system, or for use as a tool to access a computer system;
(b) Data, code, account number, electronic serial number or any numerical instrument issued by an issuer to a person entitled to use it, without issuing a document or any other thing, but having the same method of use as (a); or
(c) Any other thing used in conjunction with electronic data to identify the user.
(15) "Passport" means an identification document of any form issued by the Thai Government, a foreign government, or an international organization to any person for use as identification in international travel.
(16) "Sexual organ" includes a sexual organ obtained through sex reassignment surgery.
(17) [Reserved]
(18) "Sexual intercourse" means an act to satisfy the desire of the doer by penetrating the sexual organ, anus, or mouth of another person with the doer's sexual organ, or by penetrating the sexual organ or anus of another person with any other thing.
(19) "Sexual harassment" means any act by words, gestures, communications, obscene material, or by any other means of a sexually harassing nature that causes the victim to feel unsafe, annoyed, or embarrassed.