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When an offence has occurred or is claimed or believed to have occurred in the jurisdiction of any court, it shall be addressed by that court. But if—

the accused resides or was arrested or an official has conducted the inquiry in a locality outside the territory of such court, it may be addressed by the court to whose jurisdiction the locality belongs;

the offence occurred outside the Kingdom of Siam, it shall be addressed by the Criminal Court, and if the inquiry has been conducted in a locality which belongs to the territory of any court, it may also be addressed by that court.

When two or more courts have equal power to address a case, if the charge instituting the case has been submitted to the court in whose territory the offence did not occur according to the charge, the prosecutor or accused may request the case to be transferred to another court in whose territory the offence occurred.

If the prosecutor submits the charge to the court in whose territory the offence occurred but it later appears to the prosecutor that the trial of the case would be more convenient