Section 267: Causing a false statement to be recorded in an official document

Supreme Court decisions interpreting this section

1. Supreme Court Judgment No. 2630/2567 (2024)

   Causing a land official to record a false statement in an official title document, in a manner likely to cause damage, supports conviction under Section 267 together with Section 137.

   In connected proceedings the defendant was found guilty under Sections 137 and 267 and sentenced to six months imprisonment and a 3,000 baht fine, the prison term suspended for two years, arising from false particulars in a land title matter.

2. Supreme Court Judgment No. 2086/2567 (2024)

   Merely giving false information to a registrar so that the registrar records it in the register is not using the resulting document. Where the complaint alleges no more than that, there is no offence of using a document produced by causing an official to record a false statement under Section 268 paragraph one read with Section 267.

   The defendant authorised an agent to apply to register a change of the company's directors, bringing one in and removing the two plaintiffs. The Supreme Court held the complaint alleged only that he gave false information to the registrar to be entered in the register at the Samut Songkhram partnership and company registration office, not that he took the resulting registry document and used it. The dismissal of the Section 268 charge was therefore correct, and the conviction rested on Sections 137 and 267.

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