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 ⁠Whoever has been sentenced to a fine and fails to pay the fine within thirty days counted from the day the court issued the judgment must incur the seizure of property to cover the fine or else must incur confinement instead of the fine. But if the court entertains a reasonable suspicion that he would avoid paying the fine, the court may order provision of security or order him to incur confinement instead of the fine for the time being.

The stipulations of paragraph 2 of section 24 shall not apply to confinement imposed instead of a fine.

In applying confinement instead of a fine, the rate of five baht per day shall be observed, and whether the case be of a single count or of several counts, the confinement shall not be applied over a term of one year, save where the court issues a judgment imposing a fine of ten thousand baht or more, in which case the court may order confinement instead of the fine for a period of time longer than one year but not than two years.

In calculating the period of time, the day on which the confinement imposed instead of the fine commences shall be included and shall be counted as one full day, regardless of the number of hours.

In the event that the person fined has been detained before the court issued the judgment, the days of such detention shall be deducted from the amount of the fine at