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Whereas the National Administrative Reform Council entertains an opinion that the rates of punishment designated for the offences relating to defamation or insult against the King, Queen, Heir to the Throne, or Regent [of Thailand], the king, queen, prince consort, heir to the throne, or head of a foreign state, officers whilst performing duties, courts or judges, and people in general, as well as other acts of desecrating the Nation [or] a foreign state which has friendly relations [with the Nation], or acts constituting religious desecration, and offences relating to the offering of resistance or obstruction to officers in the performance of duties and the causing of obstruction to the trial or adjudication of [a case by] a court, are not suitable for the present situations, it is appropriate to modify those rates of punishment so that they be higher. The Head of the National Administrative Reform Council therefore issues the following order:

The stipulations of section 112 of the Penal Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations: