Translation:Computer Crimes Act (No. 2) 2017

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 * 1)  Literally 'Act on the Commission of Offences Concerning Computer (No. 2), 2560 BE'.

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 * 1)  Government Gazette: Volume 134/Part 10 A/Page 24/24 January 2017. Entry into force: 23 May 2017.

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 * 1)  Literally 'If the commission of the crime under section...is the commission [of a crime] to'.
 * 2)  , literally 'security and safety' or 'secured safety', is a neologism for 'security'. But there is a general word for 'security', that is, , which is also used in the present document. In this translation, both words are translated the same, 'security'.
 * 3)  Literally 'If the commission of the crime under paragraph 1 or paragraph 3 [is] without having the intent to kill but is the cause that makes another person arrive at death'.

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 * 1)  Literally 'If the commission of the crime under  or  [is] without having the intent to kill but is the cause that makes another person attain death'.

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 * 1)  Literally 'which is not the commission of a crime of defamation under the Penal Code '.
 * 2)   (lāmok) means 'filthy', 'immoral', 'lewd', or 'low'. In general, it is synonymous with the other two terms used in the Penal Code:  (lāmok‘anāčhān) and  (‘anāčhān). But the three are translated differently (lāmok as 'vulgar', lāmok‘anāčhān as 'obscene', and ‘anāčhān'' as 'indecent') just for the sake of distinction and because they might have different meanings in legal context (though there has been no judicial decision about their difference yet).

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 * 1)  Literally 'Any person brings into a computer system that the general people may enter and reach, computer data that appears as an image of [an]other person, and that image is an image that comes into existence from an act of creating, editing, adding, or modifying by electronic method or by any other method; prescribed, however, that [the act of bringing is done] in a manner that is likely to make that other person lose reputation, be insulted, be hated, or receive shame'.
 * 2)  Literally:  (1)  'If the act according to paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 is an act of bringing computer data in[to a computer system] with good mind[/in good faith], which is an act of condemning or praising with fairness about any person or thing, which is the usualness of the people to do, the person acting does not have wrongfulness';  (2)  'If the act according to paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 is an act of bringing computer data in[to a computer system] with good mind[/in good faith], which is an act of making with fairness a condemnation or praise about any person or thing, the making of which is the nature of the people, the person acting does not have wrongfulness';  (3)  'If the act according to paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 is an act of bringing computer data in[to a computer system] with good mind[/in good faith], which is an act of making with fairness a condemnation or praise about any person or thing, which the people would make by nature, the person acting does not have wrongfulness'.

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 * 1)  Literally 'shall have the number of three persons'.

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 * 1)  Literally 'in case there is a cause by which it should be believed that there is the commission of a crime according to this Act or in case there is a request according to paragraph 2'.
 * 2)  Literally 'necessary for the purpose in using as evidence concerning the commission of the crime and finding the person of the crime-committing individual'.
 * 3)  Literally 'except in the case that there is a reasonable cause, [he] must have receive permission from the competent authority'.
 * 4)  Literally 'appropriate for type[s] of service providers'.
 * 5)  Literally '[In] the exercise of the powers of competent authorities according to section 18 (4), (5), (6), (7), and (8), a competent authority shall file an application to a court that has jurisdiction so that [it] issues an order permitting the competent authority to carry out the activities according to the application; provided that the application must specify the causes by which it should be believed that any person commits or is to commit any particular act which is a crime, the reasons for which the power(s) must be exercised, the characteristics of the commission of the crime, the details about the equipment that is used in the commission of the crime and [about] the person committing the crime, as much as [he] could specify, as supplementaries to the application also. In considering the application, the court shall consider the said application with quickness.'
 * 6)  Literally 'the competent authority who is the head in'.

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 * 1)  Literally 'but it must be the kind that does not come into existence from'.

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 * 1)  Literally 'In determining that [competent authorities] receive special compensation, [the person determining] must have regard to the missions and duties, the knowledge and proficiency, the shortage in the finding of persons to performs duties or there is an act of losing persons performing duties out of the system of official affairs in large numbers, the qualities of work, and the [competent authorities' (?)] maintenance of themselves in righteousness, by comparing compensation of other persons performing work in the process of justice also.'

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 * 1)  Literally 'The conduct of the act of issuing the rules or announcements according to paragraph 1[, it] shall be conducted to [the extent of] completion within sixty days counted from the date this Act comes into force. If unable to [so] conduct, the Minister of Digital Economy and Society shall report the grounds for being unable to [so] conduct to the Council of Ministers for acknowledgement.'