Volume 100, Number 53
Royal Gazette
5 April 2526
Section2.This Act shall come into force from the day following the day of its publication in the Royal Gazette onwards.
Section3.The stipulations of section 51 of the Penal Code, which have been amended by the Announcement of the Revolutionary Council No. 11 dated 11 November 2514 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:
"Section51.In increasing a punishment, it shall not be increased up to death, life imprisonment, or imprisonment over fifty years."
Section4.The stipulations of section 91 of the Penal Code, which have been amended by the Announcement of the Revolutionary Council No. 11 dated 21 November 2514 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:
"Section91.When it appears that any person has committed an act constituting several and different counts of offences, the court shall punish him on every count constituted by the act. However, regardless of whether or not a punishment has been increased or decreased or the scale of punishment has also been decreased, when the punishments for all the counts are summed up, the total imprisonment must not be over the following terms:
(1)ten years, in the event that the maximum rate of punishment carried by the heaviest count is imprisonment not over three years;
(2)twenty years, in the event that the maximum rate of punishment carried by the heaviest count is imprisonment over three years but not over ten years;