Volume 128, Number 40A
Royal Gazette
23 May 2554
Note: The grounds for promulgation of this Royal Decree are as follows: The Act Establishing Bueng Kan Province, 2554 BE, requires that Bueang Kan district, Seka district, So Phisai district, Bung Khla district, Bueng Khlong Long district, Pak Khat district, Phon Charoen district, and Si Wilai district, be separated from the administration of Nong Khai province to jointly form Bueng Kan province. As all the localities forming Bueng Kan province used to be subject to the jurisdiction of the Nong Khai Provincial Court, the Nong Khai Provincial Court's Division for Juvenile and Family Cases no longer has power to try and adjudicate upon juvenile and family cases in the area of Bueang Kan province after the coming into force of the Act Establishing Bueng Kan Province, 2554 BE, and the offences committed by children and juveniles have to be prosecuted in the provincial court instead. This causes the prosecuted children and juveniles to not enjoy the benefit of the protection of rights under the law on establishment of juvenile and family courts and juvenile and family case procedure at the same level as in other areas. It is thus appropriate to open a Division for Juvenile and Family Cases within the Bueng Kan Provincial Court to perform the duty of trying and adjudicating upon juvenile and family cases. In addition, as the Act Establishing Juvenile and Family Courts and Juvenile and Family Case Procedure, 2534 BE, section 8, paragraph 2, provides that, in other provinces than the provinces where juvenile and family courts have already been established in accordance with paragraph 1, a division for juvenile and family cases shall be established within every provincial court, and the time to open a provincial court's division for juvenile and family cases shall be announced by a royal decree. It is therefore necessary to enact this Royal Decree.
