Book 2: Specific Offences

Section 107: Killing the King
Section 108: Act of violence against the King
Section 109: Killing the Queen, Heir-apparent or Regent
Section 110: Violence against the Queen, Heir-apparent or Regent
Section 111: Supporter in an offence against the Sovereign or Regent
Section 112: Lese-majeste: defaming the monarch
Section 113: Insurrection against the State
Section 114: Preparation for insurrection
Section 115: Inciting soldiers or police to desert
Section 116: Sedition and incitement of unrest
Section 117: Strikes and boycotts to coerce the Government
Section 118: Insulting the national flag or emblem
Section 119: Ceding territory or impairing independence
Section 120: Conspiring with an agent of a foreign State
Section 121: A Thai national who wages war against Thailand or joins the enemy
Section 122: Aiding the war operations of the enemy
Section 123: Obtaining state secrets affecting national safety
Section 124: Disclosing or obtaining State security secrets
Section 125: Tampering with documents concerning the State's international interests
Section 126: Dishonestly failing to carry out an entrusted State mission
Section 127: Acts causing trouble to the country from outside
Section 128: Preparation or attempt in this Chapter
Section 129: Supporter in an offence in this Chapter
Section 130: Assault on a foreign head of state
Section 131: Violence against an accredited foreign envoy
Section 132: Killing or attempting to kill a foreign sovereign or envoy
Section 133: Defaming a foreign monarch or head of State
Section 134: Defaming an accredited foreign envoy
Section 135: Insulting the flag or emblem of a friendly foreign State
Section 135/1: Terrorism offence
Section 135/2: Threatening terrorism, or gathering forces, weapons or funds
Section 135/3: Supporter in a terrorism offence
Section 135/4: Membership of a group designated as terrorist by the UN Security Council
Section 136: Insulting an official
Section 137: False statement to an official
Section 138: Resisting or obstructing an official
Section 139: Coercing an official
Section 140: Aggravated resisting or coercing an official
Section 141: Tampering with an official seal
Section 142: Interfering with seized property
Section 143: Trading in influence
Section 144: Bribery of officials (offering a bribe)
Section 145: Impersonating an official
Section 146: Unauthorized use of uniform, rank or insignia
Section 147: Embezzlement by an official
Section 148: Extortion by an official (abuse of power)
Section 149: Bribery of an official (taking a bribe)
Section 150: Acting on a benefit taken before appointment
Section 151: Dishonest use of office over property
Section 152: Official's conflict of interest in an undertaking
Section 153: Official over-disbursing public money
Section 154: Dishonest tax or fee collection by an official
Section 155: Dishonest valuation for tax purposes
Section 156: Dishonest account auditing for tax
Section 157: Malfeasance or dereliction of duty by an official
Section 158: Damaging property or documents in official's care
Section 159: Officer damaging affixed official seals
Section 160: Officer misusing an official seal
Section 161: Official forgery of documents
Section 162: Official false certification in documents
Section 163: Postal officer tampering with mail
Section 164: Officer disclosing official secrets
Section 165: Officer obstructing enforcement of law
Section 166: Officers jointly abandoning public work
Section 167: Bribing judicial and inquiry officials
Section 168: Disobeying summons to give statement
Section 169: Disobeying order to deliver or testify
Section 170: Disobeying a court summons or order
Section 171: Disobeying a court order to testify
Section 172: False report of a criminal offence
Section 173: False report that a crime occurred
Section 174: Aggravated false accusation to officials
Section 175: Bringing a false criminal charge
Section 176: Repentance for a false charge
Section 177: Perjury before a court
Section 178: False interpretation for officials
Section 179: Fabricating criminal evidence
Section 180: Presenting false evidence in court
Section 181: Aggravated penalties for false justice offences
Section 182: Retraction before testimony ends
Section 183: Retraction before judgment
Section 184: Destroying evidence to help an offender
Section 185: Tampering with court exhibits
Section 186: Tampering with forfeited property
Section 187: Tampering with seized or attached property
Section 188: Destroying a will or another's document
Section 189: Harboring an offender to avoid arrest
Section 190: Escape from lawful custody
Section 191: Freeing a person from custody
Section 192: Harboring an escapee from custody
Section 193: Family exemption for aiding an offender
Section 194: Breach of court zone ban
Section 195: Escape from court-ordered medical confinement
Section 196: Breach of court prohibition order
Section 197: Obstructing a court-ordered auction
Section 198: Insulting a court or judge
Section 199: Concealing or destroying a corpse to hide a death
Section 200: Prosecutor or investigator helping or framing a person
Section 201: Bribery of a judge, prosecutor or investigating officer
Section 202: Judicial or prosecuting officer acting on a pre-appointment bribe
Section 203: Obstructing execution of a court judgment or order
Section 204: Official allowing a person in custody to escape
Section 205: Negligently allowing a detainee to escape
Section 206: Insulting a religious object or place
Section 207: Disturbing a religious ceremony
Section 208: Falsely impersonating a monk or priest
Section 209: Membership of a secret society (angyi)
Section 210: Criminal association (song chon)
Section 211: Attending a meeting of a secret society or criminal association
Section 212: Assisting a secret society or criminal association
Section 213: Liability of members and leaders for the gang's offence
Section 214: Habitually harbouring offenders
Section 215: Assembly of ten or more causing a disturbance
Section 216: Failing to disperse when ordered by an official
Section 217: Arson of another person's property
Section 218: Aggravated arson of listed property
Section 219: Preparation to commit arson under Section 217 or 218
Section 220: Causing a fire that endangers persons or property
Section 221: Causing an explosion likely to endanger persons or property
Section 222: Causing an explosion that endangers protected property
Section 223: Property of little value and no danger to persons
Section 224: Fire, explosion or flood causing death or grievous harm
Section 225: Negligently causing a fire that damages property or endangers life
Section 226: Endangering persons by damaging buildings or safety devices
Section 227: Professional failure in building work endangering persons
Section 228: Causing a flood or obstructing a public water supply
Section 229: Damaging a public way or an aircraft landing area
Section 230: Obstructing a railway or tramway
Section 231: Interfering with traffic, navigation or aviation signals
Section 232: Putting a vehicle in a condition dangerous to persons
Section 233: Using a vehicle for hire in a dangerous condition
Section 234: Disrupting the supply of electricity or water
Section 235: Disrupting public postal, telegraph, telephone or radio communication
Section 236: Adulterating food or drugs
Section 237: Poisoning food or water provided for the public
Section 238: Public danger offence causing death or grievous harm
Section 239: Negligent public danger offences
Section 240: Counterfeiting currency and government bonds
Section 241: Altering currency to inflate its apparent value
Section 242: Debasing coins, and dealing in debased coins
Section 243: Import of counterfeit or altered currency
Section 244: Possessing counterfeit currency in order to use it
Section 245: Passing on currency after learning it is counterfeit
Section 246: Tools for counterfeiting or altering currency
Section 247: Half penalty where foreign currency is involved
Section 248: Single punishment for the counterfeiter who also uses
Section 249: Making or disposing of objects resembling currency
Section 250: Forging the State Seal or the Royal Signature
Section 251: Forging an official or public body seal
Section 252: Using a forged seal or Royal Signature
Section 253: Unlawful use of a genuine official seal
Section 254: Forging or altering a government stamp
Section 255: Importing counterfeit seals, the Royal Signature or government stamps
Section 256: Restoring a cancelled government stamp for reuse
Section 257: Using or selling stamps produced under Section 254 or 256
Section 258: Forging or restoring a public transport ticket
Section 259: Where the ticket is a public admission ticket
Section 260: Using or selling forged or altered tickets
Section 261: Tools for counterfeiting stamps or tickets
Section 262: Half penalty where a foreign government stamp is involved
Section 263: Single punishment where the maker also commits a related offence
Section 264: Forgery of a document
Section 265: Forgery of a document of title or an official document
Section 266: Forgery of a will, share certificate, bill or certificate of deposit
Section 267: Causing a false statement to be recorded in an official document
Section 268: Using a forged or falsified document
Section 269/1: Forging an electronic card
Section 269/2: Making or possessing tools for forging an electronic card
Section 269/3: Import or export of forged electronic cards or forging tools
Section 269/4: Using, possessing or selling a forged electronic card
Section 269/5: Unlawful use of another person's electronic card
Section 269/6: Possessing another person's electronic card for unlawful use
Section 269/7: Increased penalty for payment and cash withdrawal cards
Section 270: False weights and measures
Section 271: Deceptive sale of goods
Section 272: Passing off and damaging another trader's credit
Section 273: Counterfeiting a registered trademark
Section 274: Imitating a registered trademark
Section 275: Importing or selling goods with a forged mark
Section 276: Rape by coercion
Section 277: Sexual intercourse with a child under 15
Section 277 bis: Aggravated rape causing grievous harm or death
Section 277 ter: Armed or gang rape causing grievous harm or death
Section 278: Indecent act by coercion
Section 279: Indecent act against a child under 15
Section 280: Aggravated indecent act
Section 281: Compoundability of certain sexual offences
Section 282: Procuring a person for indecency
Section 283: Procuring for indecency by coercion
Section 284: Taking a person away for indecency by coercion
Section 284/1: Sexual harassment
Section 284/2: Sexual harassment by a person in a position of power
Section 284/3: Court order restraining further harassment
Section 284/4: Court order to take down obscene data
Section 285: Aggravated sexual offences by relationship
Section 286: Living on earnings of prostitution
Section 287: Obscene materials offence
Section 287/1: Child obscene material offence
Section 287/2: Trading in and distributing child pornography
Section 288: Murder
Section 289: Aggravated murder
Section 290: Assault causing death
Section 291: Negligence causing death
Section 292: Driving a person to suicide by cruelty
Section 293: Aiding suicide of a child or incapacitated person
Section 294: Affray causing death
Section 295: Causing bodily harm
Section 296: Aggravated bodily harm
Section 297: Grievous bodily harm
Section 298: Aggravated grievous bodily harm
Section 299: Affray causing grievous harm
Section 300: Negligence causing grievous harm
Section 301: Self-induced abortion after twelve weeks
Section 302: Causing abortion with consent
Section 303: Causing abortion without consent
Section 304: Attempted abortion is not punishable
Section 305: Lawful medical abortion
Section 306: Abandoning a child not over nine years of age
Section 307: Abandoning a person you have a duty to care for
Section 308: Abandonment causing death or grievous harm
Section 309: Coercion by threat or force
Section 310: Unlawful deprivation of liberty
Section 311: Causing deprivation of liberty by negligence
Section 312: Enslavement
Section 313: Kidnapping for ransom
Section 314: Supporting a kidnapping for ransom
Section 315: Acting as a ransom intermediary
Section 316: Reduced penalty for releasing the victim
Section 317: Taking a child not over fifteen from its parents
Section 318: Taking an unwilling minor aged 15 to 18
Section 319: Taking a consenting minor aged 15 to 18 for profit or indecency
Section 320: Taking or sending a person out of the Kingdom
Section 321: Compoundable liberty offences
Section 322: Opening another's sealed correspondence
Section 323: Breach of professional confidence
Section 324: Disclosing an industrial or scientific secret learned in a position of trust
Section 325: Secrecy offences are compoundable
Section 326: Criminal defamation
Section 327: Defamation of a deceased person
Section 328: Defamation by publication
Section 329: Good faith defences to defamation
Section 330: Truth as a defence to defamation
Section 331: Court statements privilege
Section 332: Court orders after a defamation conviction
Section 333: Defamation offences are compoundable
Section 334: Theft of property
Section 335: Aggravated theft
Section 335 bis: Theft of religious property
Section 336: Snatching of property
Section 336 bis: Aggravated theft and snatching
Section 337: Extortion
Section 338: Blackmail
Section 339: Robbery
Section 339 bis: Robbery of religious property
Section 340: Gang-robbery
Section 340 bis: Gang-robbery of religious property
Section 340 ter: Aggravated robbery and gang-robbery
Section 341: Cheating and fraud
Section 342: Aggravated fraud
Section 343: Fraud on the public
Section 344: Fraud on labour
Section 345: Taking food or lodging unable to pay
Section 346: Inducing a disposal by exploiting weakness of mind
Section 347: Insurance property fraud
Section 348: Fraud offences are compoundable
Section 349: Damaging one's own pledged property
Section 350: Defrauding creditors
Section 351: Cheating against creditors compoundable
Section 352: Misappropriation, and the half penalty for found property
Section 353: Breach of trust in managing property
Section 354: Aggravated misappropriation by trusted persons
Section 355: Converting hidden found property
Section 356: Misappropriation compoundable
Section 357: Receiving stolen property
Section 358: Mischief, damaging property
Section 359: Aggravated mischief, specific property
Section 360: Damaging public-benefit property
Section 361: Mischief under Sections 358 and 359 is compoundable
Section 362: Trespass on immovable property
Section 363: Removing or destroying boundary markers
Section 364: Entering a dwelling or refusing to leave
Section 365: Aggravated trespass
Section 366: Trespass offences are compoundable except Section 365
Section 366/1: Sexual penetration of a corpse
Section 366/2: Indecent act against a corpse
Section 366/3: Damaging or moving a corpse
Section 366/4: Insulting a corpse
Section 269: False certification by a member of a profession
Section 280/1: Recording a sexual offence for unlawful gain
Section 283 bis: Taking a consenting minor aged 15 to 18 for indecency
Section 285/1: No defence of ignorance of the child's age in sexual offences
Section 285/2: Aggravated penalty where the victim cannot protect themselves
Section 310 bis: Forced labour by deprivation of liberty
Section 312 bis: Aggravated penalties where the victim is a child or is harmed
Section 312 ter: Receiving or procuring a minor aged 15 to 18
Section 321/1: No defence of ignorance of the child's age in child-taking offences
Section 360 bis: Damaging a Buddha image or religious object in a place of worship
Section 269/10: Import or export of a forged passport
Section 269/11: Unlawful use of another person's passport
Section 269/12: Forging a visa seal, seal impression or visa sticker
Section 269/13: Using a forged visa seal, seal impression or visa sticker
Section 269/14: Import or export of a forged visa seal, seal impression or visa sticker
Section 269/15: Unlawful use of a genuine visa seal, seal impression or visa sticker
Section 269/8: Forging a passport
Section 269/9: Using, possessing or selling a forged passport

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