ThailandFilm and Video Act, Age-Rating Categories and Restriction on Admission or Sale to Minors
Film and Video Act, B.E. 2551 (2008), secs. 26, 44, 45, 80
In force since .
An adult content age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
- Enforcement body
- Film and Video Censorship Committee
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to a cinema-exhibition licensee (section 37) and to a film rental, exchange or sale licensee (section 38). The most restricted viewable category is reserved to persons 20 years of age or older.
- As a cinema-exhibition licensee, post the age-rating category assigned to each film in a clearly visible place.
- As a cinema-exhibition licensee, do not knowingly or negligently admit a person below the age set for a film's category during its screening.
- As a film rental, exchange or sale licensee, do not rent, exchange or sell a film in a category to a person below that category's age.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
If you get it wrong
Penalty structure
The fine applies to a licensee's violation of sec. 44 paragraph two (the admission restriction) or sec. 45 (the rental, exchange, or sale restriction), among the other violations sec. 80 lists.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 20,000
- Currency
- THB
- Fixed cap
- 100,000
What it reaches
Age threshold
20
Covered services
Cinema exhibition (licensee under sec. 37) and film rental, exchange, or sale (licensee under sec. 38)
Obligation class
Age verification
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Sections 26, 44, 45 and 80 require a licensee to post the age category of a film and not to admit, rent, exchange or sell to a person below the age set, and punish breach; none names a record of an age check, a retention period, an audit or an access right.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
A cinema-exhibition licensee must post the age-rating category assigned to each film in a clearly visible place and must not knowingly or negligently admit a person below the age set for that category during its screening. A film rental, exchange, or sale licensee must not rent, exchange, or sell a film in that category to a person below that age.
The most restricted viewable category is reserved to persons twenty years of age or older, and a licensee who violates either duty is liable to a fine.
When LexLint raises it
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