BANGKOK – According to the third clause of the Emergency Decree issued on April 10, 2020, there are seven groups of people who can travel during the curfew from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. as follows:
Group 1
– Officers, assistant officers, police officers and military officers
– Civilians who are performing their duties according to other laws
Group 2
– Doctors, nurses, and medical personnel
– Patients who need to see a doctor and persons who take care of them
Group 3
– Carriers of food, medicine, medical supplies and medical devices
– Consumer product carriers and agricultural product carriers
– Fuel carriers and postal parcel carriers
– Newspaper carriers and import and export product carriers
Group 4
– Those who are transferring people to a separate place for quarantine, under the law on communicable diseases
– People traveling to or from the airport or bus terminals that are permitted by the government to open
Group 5
– Those who provide service to homeless people and fuel service providers at petrol stations
– Those who provide food or product delivery services
– Those who provide inspection or maintenance service for electricity, plumbing, drainage, water and natural gas pipelines
– Those who provide garbage collection and disposal services
– Those who provide telecommunication equipment network maintenance and improvement services
– Those who provide banking services, capital market services, rescue services and disaster prevention and mitigation services
– Those who must act in the event of an accident
– Those who need to contact the village headmen, subdistrict headmen, administrative authorities and inquiry officials
Group 6
– Those who work in shifts according to the normal scheduled time of the government agencies, companies and factories
– Security guards and fishery professionals
– Rubber tappers and veterinarians
Group 7
– Those who have other necessary causes will be considered by officials’ case by case
– The conditions of travel are
– People in Groups 1-6 must present their identification card or other card, documents certifyingnecessity or documents relating to goods, services, travel or other evidence
– People in Group 7 must provide necessary reasons together with evidence to the authority.
– Complying with disease prevention measures as required
Violators are punished with imprisonment of not more than two years, a fine of not more than four thousand baht, or both. (NNT)