Section 16
Whenever the Court gives judgment to apply a measure of safety to any person, if it
appears afterwards to the Court from the submission of such person himself, the legal
representative or guardian of such person, or the Public Prosecutor that the circumstances
concerning the application have changed from formerly. The Court may revoke or suspend
temporarily the application of the measure of safety to such person, as it thinks fit.
Section 17
The provisions in Book 1 of this Code shall be applied in the case of offence according to the
other laws also, provided that such laws will have been prescribed otherwise.
CHAPTER 3
PUNISHMENTS AND MEASURES OF SAFETY
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PUNISHMENTS
Section 18
Punishments for inflicting upon the offenders are as follows:
(1)
Death;
(2)
Imprisonment;
(3)
Confinement;
(4)
Fine;
(5)
Forfeiture of property.
The capital punishment and life imprisonment shall be not enforced to offender less than
eighteen years of age.
In case of offender less than eighteen years of age has committed the offence to be
punished with death or imprisoned for life, the punishment, as aforesaid. shall be deemed
as commuted as imprisoned for fifty years.
(Section 18, the second paragraph and the third paragraph, amended by Section 3 of the
Act Amending the Criminal Code (No. 16), B.E 2546)
Section 19
Whoever, punished with death, shall be proceeded by spraying an injection or toxin to be
death.
The rule and procedure of execution shall go according to regulation designated by Ministry
of Justice by its publication in the Government Gazette.
(Section 19 amended by Section 4 of the Act Amending the Criminal Code (No. 16), B.E.
2546.)
Section 20
All the offences as determined by the laws to be punished by both imprisonment and fine, if
the Court deeming advisable will inflict the punishment of imprisonment only.
Section 21
In calculating the period of imprisonment, a day begun in imprisonment shall be included
also and shall be counted for a whole day, irrespective of the number of hours.
If the period for calculation is determined in months, a month shall count for thirty days,
and, if determined in years, it shall be calculated according to the official calendar.
Liberation shall take place on the day following that on which the period of imprisonment
terminates.
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