Section 222: Causing an explosion that endangers protected property

Firm annotation

Section 222 is a borrowed-penalty provision in the chapter on offences causing public danger. Section 217 punishes setting fire to property belonging to another, at six months to seven years and a fine of 10,000 to 140,000 baht. Section 218 punishes setting fire to a listed class of property, a dwelling, a building used to store or manufacture goods, a theatre or assembly hall, a public building or place of worship, a railway station, airport or public parking or mooring place, or a steamship, motor vessel of five tons or more, aircraft or railway train used in public transport, and carries death, imprisonment for life, or five to twenty years. Where an explosion rather than a fire causes danger to that property, this section applies the penalty of the section the property falls under. Note the distinction from Section 221, which punishes causing an explosion likely to endanger a person or another's property in its own right, at up to seven years and a fine of up to 140,000 baht: Section 222 requires that the danger actually reach property of the kind described in Section 217 or 218.