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 This Act is called the "Act Amending the Penal Code (No. 2), 2512 BE".

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

The following stipulations shall be inserted in the Penal Code as its section 335bis:

"Whoever commits theft of a thing which is a Buddha image or religious object or any part of the said Buddha image or object, shall be punished with imprisonment from one year to ten years and a fine from two thousand baht to twenty thousand baht, if such thing is worshiped by the public or preserved as national treasure.

If the offence under paragraph 1 is committed in a temple, monastery, place of religious respect, historic place which is state property, official place, or national museum, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment from three years to fifteen years and a fine from six thousand baht to thirty thousand baht."

The following stipulations shall be inserted in the Penal Code as its section 339bis: