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ResourcesTHAILAND CRIMINAL CODEBook2Specific Offences Title X Offence Against Life and Body Chapter 2 Offence Against Body

Specific Offences Title X Offence Against Life and Body Chapter 2 Offence Against Body

Page: 53

Section: 290 - 296

Section 290.- Whoever, causes death to the other person by inflicting injury upon the body of such person without intent to cause death, shall be punished with imprisonment of three to fifteen years.

If the offence being committed under any of the circumstances mentioned in Section 289, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment of three to twenty years.

 

Section 291.- Whoever, doing the act by negligence and that act causing the other person to death, shall be imprisoned not out of ten years or fined not out of twenty thousand Baht.

 

Section 292.- Whoever, practicing the cruelty or employing the similar factor on the person to have depended on him for subsistence or any other activities so as to that person shall commit the suicide, if suicide to have occurred or to have been attempted, shall be imprisoned not out seven years and fined not out of fourteen thousand Baht.

 

Section 293.- Whoever aids or instigates a child not over sixteen years of age, or a person who is unable to understand the nature and importance of his act or who is unable to control his act, to commit suicide, shall, if suicide has occurred or has been attempted, be punished with imprisonment not exceeding five years or fined not exceeding ten thousand Baht, or both.

 

Section 294.- Whoever participates in a public order offense among three persons upwards, and any person, whether such person participated or not has died, shall be imprisoned not out of two years or fined not out of four thousand Baht, or both.

If the participant in such affray can show that he or she has acted so as to prevent such affray or in lawful defence, such participant shall not be punished.

 

CHAPTER 2

OFFENCE AGAINST BODY

 

Section 295.- Whoever, causes injury to the other person in body or mind is said to commit bodily harm, and shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding two years or fined not exceeding four thousand Baht, or both.

 

Section 296.- Whoever, committing bodily harm, if such offence having any circumstance as prescribed by Section 289, shall be imprisoned not out of three years or fined not out of six thousand Baht, or both.