Section 22
The punishment of imprisonment shall begin in the day on which the judgment is passed.
But, if the sentenced person is kept in custody prior to the judgment of the Court, the
number of days in custody shall be deducted from the period of imprisonment according to
the judgment, unless the judgment provides otherwise.
In case of the judgment provides otherwise, the punishment of imprisonment according to
the judgment, when added by the number of days in custody prior to the judgment of the
Court in such case, shall not exceed the maximum rate of punishment as provided by the
law for the committed offence. This shall not, however, affect the provisions of Section 91.
Section 23
Any person commits an offence punishable to be imprisoned, and in such case, the Court
will inflict the punishment of imprisonment not exceed three months, if it does not appear
that such person has received the punishment of imprisonment previously, or if it appears
that such person has received the punishment of imprisonment previously but it is the
punishment from the offence committed by negligence, or by a petty offence, the Court
may inflict the punishment of confinement not out of three months on behalf of such
punishment of imprisonment.
Section 24
Whoever to be under the detention shall be interned in the place for detaining designated
by non-goal, police station, or the place superintending the inquiry official's alleged
offender.
The Court may, if it thinks fit, order in the judgment to confine the offender in his own
dwelling place or in the dwelling place of another person who consents to accept him, or in
any other place where he may be confined so as to be suitable to his kind or condition.
If it appears to the Court that the confinement of the detained person in the place to confine
according to paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 may cause a danger to such person or make the
person depending or him for subsistence excessive trouble or there is other exceptional
circumstance shows that it is not advisable to detain the detained person in the place as
aforesaid, the Court will issue an order to detain the detained person in other place but not
such person's dwelling-house with consent of owner or occupier of the premises. In such
case, the Court is empowered to designate any condition to detained any the condition to
the detained person to practice, and if the owner or occupier of the premise as aforesaid
consents, the Court may issue an order to appoint such person as controller and it shall be
deemed that the appointed person is the government official according to this Code.
(Section 24, the third paragraph, amended by Section 4 of the Criminal Code Amendment
Act (No.15), B.E. 2545)
Section 25
A person inflicted with the punishment of confinement in a determined place shall receive
maintenance from such place. But, subject to the regulations of the place, he is entitled to
obtain food from outside at his own expense, to use his own clothes, to receive visitors for
at least one hour in a day and to receive and send letters.
A person inflicted with the punishment of confinement must work according to the rules,
regulations and discipline. If he desires to do other work, he shall be permitted to select
according to the category of work that he is willing to do, provided that it is not contrary to
the rules, regulations, discipline or safety of such place.
Section 26
If the person punished by the confinement is confined in own dwelling place or in the
dwelling place of the other person consenting to accept such person, such confined person
is entitled to carry on own profession or occupation in the aforesaid place. For this purpose,
the Court may determine the conditions to the confined person to do anything or not, as the
Court deems expedient.
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