Royal Proclamation establishing a Contiguous Zone of the Kingdom of Thailand

Page 1 National legislation - DOALOS/OLA - United Nations asdf Royal Proclamation establishing the Contiguous Zone of the Kingdom of Thailand, 14 August 1995 By Royal Command of His Majesty the King, it is hereby Proclaimed that: For the purpose of exercising the rights of the Kingdom of Thailand with regard to the contiguous zone, which are based on generally recognized principles of international law, it is deemed appropriate to establish the contiguous zone of the Kingdom of Thailand as follows: 1. The contiguous zone of the Kingdom of Thailand is the area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea of the Kingdom of Thailand, the breadth of which extends to twenty-four nautical miles measured from the baselines used for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea. 2. In the contiguous zone, the Kingdom of Thailand shall act as necessary to: (a) Prevent violation of customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws and regulations, which will or may be committed within the Kingdom or its territorial sea; (b) Punish violation of the laws and regulations defined in (a), which is committed within the Kingdom or its territorial sea. Proclaimed on the 14th day of August, B.E. 2538, being the forty-ninth year of the present reign.