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 Whereas it is appropriate to amend the Penal Code;

Therefore, by and with the advice and consent of the National Assembly, the Monarch gives a great royal command that the following Act be enacted:

This Act is called the "Act Amending the Penal Code (No. 14), 2494 BE".

This Act shall come into force from the day following the day of its publication in the Royal Gazette onwards.

The stipulations of section 41 of the Penal Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:

"⁠Whoever committed an offence carrying imprisonment and, in the case thereof, will be imposed by the court with imprisonment of not over two years, may, if he does not appear to have been imprisoned before or he appears to have been imprisoned before but the punishment was for a negligent offence, or petty offence, or offence carrying a punishment not higher than that for a petty offence and the court finds it appropriate after taking into consideration his age, background, behaviour, intelligence, education, health, mental condition, habit, occupation, and environment, or the nature of his offence, or other causes for which mercy should be given,