This Penal Code is the codified system of law, or body of laws concerning crimes and offenses against the public and or against another person and prescribing a penalty for the one who violates it. The Penal Code consists of two Books: Gneral Provisions(I); Specific Offences(II).
A person shall be criminally punished only when the act done by such person is provided to be an offence and the punishment is defined by the law in force at the time of the doing of such act, and the punishment to be inflicted upon the offender shall be that provided by the law (Sec. 2). Whoever, committing an offence within the Kingdom, shall be punished according to law. The offence committed in any Thai vessel or airplane irrespective of any place of Thai vessel or airplane shall be deemed as being committed within the Kingdom (Sec. 4). Title VIII of Book II provides for the offences relating to trade. Whoever, selling the goods be any fraudulent and deceitful means in order to deceive the buyer as to the origin source, nature, quality or such goods quantity, if such act not constitute cheating and fraud, shall be imprisoned not out of three year or fined not out of six thousand Baht, or both (Sec.271). Whoever, forging the registered trade-mark of other person, whether to be registered inside or outside the Kingdom, shall be imprisoned not out of three years or fined not out of six thousand Baht, or both (Sec.274).