Tentative Transiation If the offence according to the first paragraph be honestly input computer data, such person shall not be guilty. The offence according to the first paragraph is compoundable offence. making If the injured party in the offence according to the first paragraph dies before a complaint, the father, mother, spouse, or child of the deceased may make a complaint on his or her behalf, and it shall be deemed that the person making the complaint is the injured party. Section 17 Whoever commits an offence according to this Act outside the Kingdom shall be punished in the Kingdom, provided that: (1) the offender be a Thai, and there be a complaint from the Government of the country where the offence has been committed or from the injured person, or; (2) the offender be an alien, and the Thai Government or a Thai be the injured person, and there be a complaint from the injured person. Part 2 Competent Official Section 18 Subject to section 19, for the purpose of investigate and inquiry, in the case where there is reasonable ground to believe that an offence under this Act has been committed, the competent official, in so far as il is necessary to collect evidence concerning to the offence or to ascertain the offender, shall have the following powers: (1) to notify or to summon any person related to the offence prescribed by this Act to give statements or to send explanation in writing or to furnish document, information, or other evidence in understandable form; (2)to summon traffic data concerning the communication transferred computer system from the service provider or other person concemed; (3) to order the service provider to submit, to the competent official, related information of his user which has been kept under section 26 or being in his possession or control; computer (4) to copy, in case where computer system is not in his possession, the data, traffic data from the computer system that is reasonably believed of committing the offence under this Act; (5) to order the possessor or controller of computer data or equipment for storing computer data to deliver to him such computer data or equipment; (6) to verify or to access the computer system, computer data, traffic data or equipment for storing computer data of any person which is evidence or may be used as evidence in connection with the commission of the offence, or investigate to ascertain an offender, and instruct such person to deliver to him computer data, traffic data as necessity persists; (7) to decrypt computer data of any person or require person concerning with encryption of computer data to decrypt it or to afford him every reasonable facility to decrypt such computer data; (8) to seize or to attach as necessary computer system for the purpose of ascertaining the particulars of an offence and the offender under this Act. Section 19 In exercising his power under section 18 (4) (5) (6) (7) and (8), the Competent Official should have to file a motion application to the competent Court for granting such application. The application should identify reasonable grounds to believe that an offence has been committed by a person, or has been found attempting to commit an 4

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