Communicable Diseases Act, B.E. 2558 (2015) · Chapter VI Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases

Section 35

In the case of urgent necessity to prevent the transmission of dangerous communicable diseases or epidemics, the Provincial Governor with the approval of the Provincial Communicable Disease Committee or the Governor of Bangkok with the approval of the Bangkok Communicable Disease Committee, shall have the power over his or her area of responsibility as follows:

(1) to order the temporary closure of market places, cooking or food selling places, beverage producing or selling places, factories, public meeting places, theaters, educational institutes or any other places;

(2) to instruct persons infected or reasonably suspected of being infected with a dangerous communicable disease or an epidemic to temporarily cease performing their occupations;

(3) to order prohibiting persons infected or reasonably suspected of being infected with a dangerous communicable disease or an epidemic from entering public meeting places, theaters, educational institutes or any other places, unless permission from a communicable disease control officer has been obtained.

Unofficial English translation by the Division of Legal Affairs, Department of Disease Control (August 2025); the Thai text prevails.