Section Code: 0039 - 0043
Foreign Business Act,
B.E. 2542 (1999)
Section 39. Failure to Comply with Notification Requirements
Any license grantee or certificate grantee who fails to comply with section 21 paragraph two or paragraph three or violates section 22 shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand Baht.
Section 40. Failure to Comply with Written Summons
Any person who fails to comply with a written enquiry or a written summons of the Registrar or the competent official or fails to provide facts or to furnish documents or evidence when so enquired or summoned by the Registrar or the competent official for the purpose of examination or fails to provide assistance to the Registrar or the competent official under section 30 without any reasonable cause shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand Baht.
Section 41. Violation of Foreign Business Requirements
In the case where a juristic person commits offences under section 34, section 35, section 36 or section 37, directors, partners or persons with the authority to represent the juristic person, who connive at the commission of such offences or fail to take reasonable action in preventing such offences shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to a fine of one hundred thousand Baht to one million Baht or to both.
Section 42. Penalty for Violating Notification Requirements
In the case of the offences under section 39 and section 40, the Director‐General or the person entrusted by the Director‐General shall have the power to settle the offences by way of payment of a fine. Upon payment by the alleged offender of a fine in the amount ordered by the Director‐General or the person entrusted by the Director‐General within thirty days as from the date of the settlement, the case shall be deemed as terminated by way of such settlement.
Section 43. Date of Enforcement
All Royal Decrees, Ministerial Regulations, Notifications and Orders which are in force on the date of the entry into force of this Act shall remain in force insofar as they are not contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act until Royal Decrees, Ministerial Regulations, Notifications and Orders issued under this Act are in force.