Section 17 Whoever commits an offence pursuant to this Act outside the Kingdom of Thailand, and (1) the offender is a Thai person and there is a request for punishment by the Government of the country where the offence has occurred or by the injured person; or (2) the offender is an alien, and the Royal Thai Government or a Thai person is the injured person, and there is a request for punishment by the injured person, shall be punished in the Kingdom of Thailand. Section 17/1 16Commission of the offences stated under Section 5, Section 6, Section 7, Section 11, Section 13 Paragraph 1, Section 16/2, Section 23, Section 24 and Section 27, may cause a fine to be issued by the Fine Committee appointed by the Minister. The Fine Committee to be appointed by the Minister shall consist of three members, one of whom must be an inquiry official under the Criminal Procedure Code. Once the Fine Committee gives its order to the offender to pay the fine, and the offender pays the fine within the time limit in compliance with the order imposed by the Fine Committee, the case shall be deemed dissolved under the Criminal Procedure Code. In the event that the offender fails to pay the fine within the prescribed period of time, the time prescription for filing criminal prosecution shall begin to runas from the expiry date of such time period. Part 2 Competent Officials Section 18 17 Subject to Section 19, for the purpose of making inquiries and investigation, in case where there is a reasonable ground to believe that an offence under this Act has been committed or where there is a request under Paragraph 2, the competent official is empowered to do any of the following actions as deemed necessary for the benefit of using it as evidence in order to establish that the offence has been committed, and to find the whereabouts of the offender: (1) To send a letter or call a person involved in the commission of the offence, in order to make an inquiry about information or submit a written explanation, documents, data or other evidence, in a format which can be clearly understood; (2) To demand traffic data from the service providers who provide the service of communication via computer systems or from any other related person; 16 Section 17/1 is added by the Computer-Related Crime Act (No. 2), B.E. 2560. 17 Section 18 is repealed and replaced by the Computer-Related Crime Act (No. 2), B.E. 2560. 7