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R.A. 9262

Anti-Violence Against Women and Children

a) Battered Woman Syndrome

a. As defined in R.A. 9262: Battered woman syndrome refers to a

scientifically defined pattern of psychological and behavioral symptoms

found in women living in battering relationships as a result of cumulative

abuse.

b. The BWS is characterized by the cycle of violence and has three phases:

(1) the tension-building phase; (2) the acute battering incident; (3) the

tranquil, loving (or at least, nonviolent) phase.

i. For the BWS to absolve the accused, she must prove that all three

phases of cycle of violence have occurred at least twice.

c. The BWS as a justifying circumstance

i. Each of the phases of cycle of violence must be proved to have

characterized at least two battering episodes;

ii. The final acute battering episode preceding the killing of the

batterer must have produced in the battered person’s mind an

actual fear of an imminent harm and an honest belief that she

needed to use force in order to save her life;

iii. At the time of the killing, the batterer must have posed probable –

not necessarily immediate and actual grave harm to the accused,

based on the history of violence by the former against the latter.

d. The BWS as a mitigating circumstance

i. Psychological Paralysis

ii. Passion and obfuscation

b) Punishable Acts

1. Sexual violence

2. Psychological violence – causes mental or emotional suffering

3. Economic abuse – makes or attempts to make the woman financially

dependent

4. Physical abuse

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Juvenile Justice Welfare Act of 2006 (R.A. No. 9344);

also refer to Child and Youth Welfare Code (P.D. 603, as

amended)

a) Definition of child in conflict with the law

- Refers to the child who is alleged as, accuse of, adjudged as, having

committed an offense under Philippine laws.

b) Minimum age of criminal responsibility and exemption from criminal

liability

Section 6. A child 15 years of age or under at the time of the commission of the

offense shall be exempt from criminal liability. However, the child shall be

subjected to an intervention program pursuant to Section 20 of this Act.

A child 15 years but below 18 years of age shall likewise be exempt from

criminal liability and be subjected to an intervention program, unless he/she

has acted with discernment, in which case, such child shall be subjected to the

appropriate proceedings in accordance with this Act.

The exemption from criminal liability herein established does not include

exemption from civil liability, which shall be enforced in accordance with

existing laws.

c) Determination of age

Sec. 7. The child in conflict with the law shall enjoy the presumption of

minority. He/She shall enjoy all the rights of a child in conflict with the law

until he/she is proven to be 18 years old or older. The age of a child may be

determined from the child’s birth certificate or any other pertinent documents.

In the absence of these documents, age may be based on information from the

child himself/herself, testimonies of other persons, the physical appearance of

the child, and other relevant evidence. In case of doubt as to the age of the

child, it shall be resolved in his/her favor.

Any person contesting the age of the child in conflict with the law

d) Treatment of child below age of responsibility

Sec. 20 If it has been determined that the child taken into custody is 15 years

old or below, the authority which will have an initial contact with the child has

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the duty to immediately release the child to the custody of his/her parents or

guardian, or in the absence thereof, the child’s nearest relative. Said authority

shall give notice to the local social welfare and development officer who will

determine the appropriate programs in consultation with the child and to the

person having custody over the child. If the parents, guardians or nearest

relatives cannot be located, or if they refuse to take custody, the child may be

released to any of the following: a duly registered nongovernmental or religious

organization; a barangay official or a member of the Barangay Council for the

Protection of Children; a local social welfare and development officer, or when

and where appropriate, the DSWD. If the child referred to herein has been

found by the Local Social Welfare and Development Office to be abandoned,

neglected, or abused by his parents, or in the event that the parents will not

comply with the prevention program, the proper petition for involuntary

commitment shall be filed by the DSWD or the Local Social Welfare and

Development Office pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 603, otherwise known

as “The Child and Youth Welfare Code”.

e) Status Offense under Section 57 of R.A. No. 9344

Sec. 57. Any conduct not considered an offense or not penalized if committed

by an adult shall not be considered an offense and shall not be punished if

committed by a child.

f) Offenses not applicable to children under Sec. 58 of R.A. No. 9344

Sec. 58. Persons below 18 years of age shall be exempt from prosecution for the

crime of vagrancy and prostitution under Section 202 of the Revised Penal

Code, of mendidancy under PD No. 1563, and sniffing of rugby under

Presidential Decree No. 1619, such prosecution being inconsistent with the

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Provided, That said

persons shall undergo appropriate counseling and treatment program.

Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002

(R.A. No. 9165)

a) As a qualifying aggravating circumstance

i. When a crime is committed under the influence of drugs, a

positive finding thereof shall be a qualifying circumstance in such

crime and the rules under the RPC shall apply;

ii. Possession of dangerous drugs during parties, social gatherings or

meetings or in the proximate company of at least two persons and

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possession of equipment, instrument, apparatus, and other

paraphernalia during parties, social gatherings or meetings or in

the proximate company of at least two persons shall aggravate the

crimes of Possession of Dangerous Drugs under Section 11 and

Possession of Equipment, Instrument, etc. under Section 12,

respectively.

b) Minor offenders

i. Minor drug violators may be given:

1. Suspended sentence for a first offense;

2. Probation or community service for a first time offense in

lieu of imprisonment; or

3. Service of sentence as any other convicted person if the

first-time minor offender shall violate any of the conditions

of his suspended sentence or any of the rules and

regulations of the Center if confinement therein was

required.

ii. Suspended sentence shall be given to a minor first time offender,

who is over 15 at the time of the commission of the offense under

Section 11 (Possession of Dangerous Drugs) but not more than 18

at the time of promulgation of judgment, subject to the following

conditions:

1. He has not been previously convicted of violations of any

provision of R.A. 9165 or of the Dangerous Drugs Act of

1972, as amended or of the RPC or of any special penal

laws. In other words, he has not committed any crime;

2. He has not been previously committed to a Center or to the

care of a DOH-accredited physician; and

3. The DDB favorably recommends suspension of his

sentence.

The privilege of suspended sentence shall be availed of by the

minor only once. If he complies all the conditions of his

suspended sentence, the court, upon favorable

recommendation of the DDB, shall discharge the accused and

dismiss all proceedings.

c) Application/Non-application of RPC provisions (Sec. 98 R.A. No. 9165, Art.

10 RPC)

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The penalties under the special penal laws such as life imprisonment are

revived, and the nomenclatures of the RPC were deleted from the law.

Under the earlier amendments of R.A. 7659, the system of penalties in the

RPC was adopted. Thus, by using the technical nomenclatures under the

RPC, the duration, correlation and legal effects of penalties therein were also

adopted. Consequently, when the ISL applies, the first part of Section 1 for

offenses under the RPC was also applied for drugs violation.

However, because of the reversion of RA 9165 to the penalties for non-RPC

offenses, necessarily, the rules and principles applicable to purely special

penal laws are also revived. Consequently, the first sentence of Article 10,

which states that: “Offenses which are or in the futue may be punishable

under special laws are not subject to the provisions of the RPC (as amended)

shall not apply except for minor offenders, where instead of Life

Imprisonment to Death, the penalty shall be reclusion perpetua to death.

Therefore when these two things concur:

a) The offender is a minor; and

b) The violation is punishable with life imprisonment to death

The imposable penalty on the minor shall be reclusion perpetua to death

and, consequently the first part of Section 1 of the ISL which follows the

rule for crimes punishable under the RPC shall become operative.

d) Punishable Acts

1. Importation of Dangerous Drugs and/or Controlled

Precursors and Essential Chemicals

2. Sale, Trading, Administration, Dispensation, Delivery,

Distribution and Transportation of Dangerous Drugs

and/or Controlled Precursors and Essential Chemicals

3. Maintenance of a Den, Dive, or Resort

4. Manufacture of Dangerous Drugs and/or Controlled

Precursors and Essential Chemicals

5. Illegal Chemical Diversion of Controlled Precursors and

Essential Chemicals

6. Manufacture or Delivery of Equipment, Instrument,

Apparatus, and Other Paraphernalia for Dangerous Drugs

and/or Controlled Precursors and Essential Chemicals

7. Possession of Dangerous Drugs

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8. Possession of Equipment, Instrument, Apparatus and other

Paraphernalia for Dangerous Drugs

9. Possession of Dangerous Drugs During parties, social

gatherings, or meetings

10. Possession of equipment, instrument, apparatus,

and other paraphernalia for dangerous drugs during

parties, social gatherings, or meetings

11. Use of dangerous drugs

12. Cultivation or culture of plants classified as

dangerous drugs or are sources thereof

13. Maintenance and keeping of original records of

transactions on dangerous drugs and/or controlled

precursors and essential chemicals

14. Unnecessary prescription of dangerous drugs

15. Unlawful prescription of dangerous drugs

16. Confiscation and forfeiture of the proceeds or

instruments of the unlawful act, including the properties or

proceeds derived from the illegal trafficking of dangerous

drugs and/or precursors and essential chemicals

17. Custody and disposition of confiscated, seized,

and/or surrendered dangerous drugs, plant sources of

dangerous drugs, controlled precursors and essential

chemicals, instruments/paraphernalia and/or laboratory

equipment

18. Misappropriation, misapplication or failure to

account for the confiscated, seized, and /or surrendered

dangerous drugs, plant sources of dangerous drugs,

controlled precursors and essential chemicals,

instruments/paraphernalia and/or laboratory equipment

including the proceeds or properties obtained from the

unlawful act committed (by public officer or employee)

e) Who are liable

USER. Any person who injects, intravenously or intramuscularly, of

consuming, either by chewing, smoking, sniffing, eating, swallowing,

drinking or otherwise introducing into the physiological system of the

body, any of the dangerous drugs.

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PUSHER. Any person who sells, trades, administers, dispenses, delivers

or gives away to another, on any terms whatsoever, or disastrous,

dispatches in transit or transports dangerous drugs or who acts as a

broker in any of such transactions in violation of this Act.

PROTECTOR OR CODDLER. Any person who knowingly and willfully

consents to the unlawful acts provided for in this Act and uses his or

her influence, power or position in shielding, harboring, screening or

facilitating the escape of any person he or she knows, or has reasonable

grounds to believe on or suspects, has violated the provisions of this Act

in order to prevent the arrest, prosecution and conviction of the violator.

MAINTAINER OF A DEN, DIVE OR RESORT. Any person or group of

persons who shall maintain a den, dive or resort where any dangerous

drug is used or sold in any form

EMPLOYEE OF DEN, DIVE OR RESORT. The caretaker, helper,

watchman, lookout, and other persons working in the den, dive or resort,

employed by the maintainer, owner, and or operator where any

dangerous drug and or controlled precursor and essential chemical is

administered, delivered, distributed, sold or used, with or without

compensation, in connection with the operation thereof.

MANUFACTURER. Any person, who, unless authorized by law, shall

engage in the manufacture of any dangerous drug.

POSSESSOR OF DANGEROUS DRUGS. Any person, who, unless

authorized by law, shall possess any dangerous drug or shall possess or

have under his or her control any equipment, instrument, apparatus and

other paraphernalia fit or intended for smoking, consuming,

administering, injecting, or introducing any dangerous drugs into the

body.

FINANCIER. Any person who pays for, raises or supplies money for, or

underwrites any of the illegal activities prescribed in this Act.

Other Person (s) Liable:

1. Public officer or employee who misappropriates, misapplies or fails to

account for confiscated, seized, or surrendered dangerous drugs, plant

sources of dangerous drugs, etc.

2. Any elective local or national official who have benefited from the

proceeds of trafficking of dangerous drugs or have received any

financial/material contributions or donations from natural or juridical

persons guilty of drug trafficking.

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3. If the violation of the Act is committed by a partnership, corporation,

association or any judicial person, the partner, president, director, or

manager who consents to or knowingly tolerates such violation shall be

held criminally liable as co-principal.

4. Partner, president, director, manager, officer or stockholder, who

knowingly authorizes, tolerates, or consents to the use of a vehicle,

vessel, or aircraft as an instrument in the importation, sale, delivery,

distribution or transportation of dangerous drugs, or to the use of their

equipment, machines or other instruments in the manufacture of any

dangerous drugs, if such vehicle, vessel, aircraft, equipment, or other

instrument, is owned or under the control and supervision of the

partnership, corporation, association or judicial entity to which they are

affiliated.

5. Any person who is found guilty of “planting” any dangerous drugs

and/or controlled precursor and essential chemicals, regardless of

quantity or purity (penalty of death).

6. Any person violating a regulation issued by the Dangerous Drugs

Board.

7. Any person authorized to conduct drug test who issues false or

fraudulent drug test results knowingly, willfully or through gross

negligence.

8. Any government officer tasked with the prosecution of drug-related

cases under this Act who delays or bungles the prosecution.

For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act, all school heads,

supervisors and teachers shall be deemed to be persons in authority and,

as such, are vested with the power to apprehend, arrest, or cause the

apprehension or arrest of any person who shall violate any of the said

provision. They shall be considered as persons in authority if they are in

the school or within its immediate vicinity, or beyond such immediate

vicinity if they are in attendance in any school or class function in their

official capacity as school heads, supervisors or teachers.

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Any teacher or school employee who discovers or finds that any person in

the school or within its immediate vicinity is violating this Act shall have

the duty to report the violation to the school head or supervisor who

shall, in turn, report the matter to the proper authorities. Failure to

report in either case shall, after hearing, constitute sufficient cause for

disciplinary action by the school authorities. (Sec. 44)

f) Attempt and conspiracy, effect on liability

a. Importation of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursor and

essential chemical;

b. Sale, trading, administration, dispensation,

delivery, distribution and transportation of dangerous drugs and/or

controlled precursor and essential chemical;

c. Maintenance of a den, dive or resort for dangerous drugs;

d. Manufacture of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursor and

essential chemical; and

e. Cultivation or culture of plants which are sources of dangerous

drugs.

The penalty for such attempt and conspiracy is the same penalty

prescribed for the commission. Thus, where the offense of sale was not

consummated, the accused should not be prosecuted under mere

possession, but under Sec. 26. (Justice Peralta)

g) Section 21 Article 2 of R.A. No. 9165

Custody and Disposition of Confiscated, Seized, and/or Surrendered

Dangerous Drugs, Plant Sources of Dangerous Drugs, Controlled

Precursors and Essential Chemicals, Instruments/Paraphernalia

and/or Laboratory Equipment. – The PDEA shall take charge and have

custody of all dangerous drugs, plant sources of dangerous drugs,

controlled precursors and essential chemicals, as well as

instruments/paraphernalia and/or laboratory equipment so confiscated,

seized and/or surrendered, for proper disposition in the following

manner:

(1) The apprehending team having initial custody and control of the

drugs shall, immediately after seizure and confiscation, physically

inventory and photograph the same in the presence of the accused or the

person/s from whom such items were confiscated and/or seized, or

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his/her representative or counsel, a representative from the media and

the Department of Justice (DOJ), and any elected public official who

shall be required to sign the copies of the inventory and be given a copy

thereof;

(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours upon confiscation/seizure of dangerous

drugs, plant sources of dangerous drugs, controlled precursors and

essential chemicals, as well as instruments/paraphernalia and/or

laboratory equipment, the same shall be submitted to the PDEA Forensic

Laboratory for a qualitative and quantitative examination;

(3) A certification of the forensic laboratory examination results, which

shall be done under oath by the forensic laboratory examiner, shall be

issued within twenty-four (24) hours after the receipt of the subject

item/s: Provided, That when the volume of the dangerous drugs, plant

sources of dangerous drugs, and controlled precursors and essential

chemicals does not allow the completion of testing within the time frame,

a partial laboratory examination report shall be provisionally issued

stating therein the quantities of dangerous drugs still to be examined by

the forensic laboratory: Provided, however, That a final certification shall

be issued on the completed forensic laboratory examination on the same

within the next twenty-four (24) hours;

(4) After the filing of the criminal case, the Court shall, within seventy-

two (72) hours, conduct an ocular inspection of the confiscated, seized

and/or surrendered dangerous drugs, plant sources of dangerous drugs,

and controlled precursors and essential chemicals, including the

instruments/paraphernalia and/or laboratory equipment, and through

the PDEA shall within twenty-four (24) hours thereafter proceed with the

destruction or burning of the same, in the presence of the accused or the

person/s from whom such items were confiscated and/or seized, or

his/her representative or counsel, a representative from the media and

the DOJ, civil society groups and any elected public official. The Board

shall draw up the guidelines on the manner of proper disposition and

destruction of such item/s which shall be borne by the

offender: Provided, That those item/s of lawful commerce, as determined

by the Board, shall be donated, used or recycled for legitimate

purposes: Provided, further, That a representative sample, duly weighed

and recorded is retained;

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(5) The Board shall then issue a sworn certification as to the fact of

destruction or burning of the subject item/s which, together with the

representative sample/s in the custody of the PDEA, shall be submitted

to the court having jurisdiction over the case. In all instances, the

representative sample/s shall be kept to a minimum quantity as

determined by the Board;

(6) The alleged offender or his/her representative or counsel shall be

allowed to personally observe all of the above proceedings and his/her

presence shall not constitute an admission of guilt. In case the said

offender or accused refuses or fails to appoint a representative after due

notice in writing to the accused or his/her counsel within seventy-two

(72) hours before the actual burning or destruction of the evidence in

question, the Secretary of Justice shall appoint a member of the public

attorney's office to represent the former;

(7) After the promulgation and judgment in the criminal case wherein the

representative sample/s was presented as evidence in court, the trial

prosecutor shall inform the Board of the final termination of the case

and, in turn, shall request the court for leave to turn over the said

representative sample/s to the PDEA for proper disposition and

destruction within twenty-four (24) hours from receipt of the same; and

(8) Transitory Provision: a) Within twenty-four (24) hours from the

effectivity of this Act, dangerous drugs defined herein which are presently

in possession of law enforcement agencies shall, with leave of court, be

burned or destroyed, in the presence of representatives of the Court,

DOJ, Department of Health (DOH) and the accused/and or his/her

counsel, and, b) Pending the organization of the PDEA, the custody,

disposition, and burning or destruction of seized/surrendered dangerous

drugs provided under this Section shall be implemented by the DOH.

h) IRR

As a general rule, non-compliance with the procedures laid down in

Republic Act No. 9165, otherwise known as the Comprehensive Dangerous

Drugs Act of 2002, will not automatically or necessarily lead to the acquittal of

the accused. In such cases, the prosecution only needs to prove that, despite

the non-observance of procedures laid down in the implementing rules of RA

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9165, the integrity and evidentiary value of the seized items were nonetheless

preserved.

In one case, the Supreme Court held that before the saving clause

provided under it can be invoked, Section 21(a) of the Implementing Rules

and Regulations of RA 9165 the prosecution to prove the twin conditions

which must be proved to justify non-compliance with the procedural rules in

buy-bust operations and justify deviation from the said rules: (1) the existence

of justifiable grounds, and (2) the preservation of the integrity and evidentiary

value of the seized items

Decree Penalizing Obstruction of Apprehension and

Prosecution of Criminal Offenders (P.D. 1829)

a) Punishable Acts

The general elements of the prohibited acts under paragraphs (a) to

(i) of this decree is that the offender knowingly or willfully

obstructs, impedes, frustrates or delays the apprehension of

suspects and the investigation and prosecution of criminal cases.

(a) preventing witnesses from testifying in any criminal proceeding or

from reporting the commission of any offense or the identity of any

offender/s by means of bribery, misrepresentation, deceit, intimidation,

force or threats;

(b) altering, destroying, suppressing or concealing any paper, record,

document, or object, with intent to impair its verity, authenticity,

legibility, availability, or admissibility as evidence in any investigation of

or official proceedings in, criminal cases, or to be used in the

investigation of, or official proceedings in, criminal cases;

(c) harboring or concealing, or facilitating the escape of, any person he

knows, or has reasonable ground to believe or suspect, has committed

any offense under existing penal laws in order to prevent his arrest

prosecution and conviction;

(d) publicly using a fictitious name for the purpose of concealing a crime,

evading prosecution or the execution of a judgment, or concealing his

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true name and other personal circumstances for the same purpose or

purposes;

(e) delaying the prosecution of criminal cases by obstructing the service

of process or court orders or disturbing proceedings in the fiscal's offices,

in Tanodbayan, or in the courts;

(f) making, presenting or using any record, document, paper or object

with knowledge of its falsity and with intent to affect the course or

outcome of the investigation of, or official proceedings in, criminal cases;

(g) soliciting, accepting, or agreeing to accept any benefit in consideration

of abstaining from, discounting, or impeding the prosecution of a

criminal offender;

(h) threatening directly or indirectly another with the infliction of any

wrong upon his person, honor or property or that of any immediate

member or members of his family in order to prevent such person from

appearing in the investigation of, or official proceedings in, criminal

cases, or imposing a condition, whether lawful or unlawful, in order to

prevent a person from appearing in the investigation of or in official

proceedings in, criminal cases;

(i) giving of false or fabricated information to mislead or prevent the law

enforcement agencies from apprehending the offender or from protecting

the life or property of the victim; or fabricating information from the data

gathered in confidence by investigating authorities for purposes of

background information and not for publication and publishing or

disseminating the same to mislead the investigator or to the court.

If any of the acts mentioned herein is penalized by any other law with a

higher penalty, the higher penalty shall be imposed.

b) Compare with Article 20 RPC (accessories exempt from criminal liability)

Article 20 of the RPC is applicable with PD 1829 because it is beneficial

to the accused. It is to be interpreted in favor of the accused because in

an absolutory cause, the offender is not criminally liable by reason of

public policy. Because the reason is public policy, it should apply both

the RPC and special laws.

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P.D. 532

Anti-Piracy and Anti-Highway Robbery

a) Definition of terms

a. Philippine Waters. It shall refer to all bodies of water, such as but not

limited to, seas, gulfs, bays around, between and connecting each of the

Islands of the Philippine Archipelago, irrespective of its depth, breadth,

length or dimension, and all other waters belonging to the Philippines by

historic or legal title, including territorial sea, the sea-bed, the insular

shelves, and other submarine areas over which the Philippines has

sovereignty or jurisdiction.

b. Vessel. Any vessel or watercraft used for transport of passengers and

cargo from one place to another through Philippine Waters. It shall

include all kinds and types of vessels or boats used in fishing.

c. Philippine Highway. It shall refer to any road, street, passage,

highway and bridges or other parts thereof, or railway or railroad within

the Philippines used by persons, or vehicles, or locomotives or trains for

the movement or circulation of persons or transportation of goods,

articles, or property or both.

d. Piracy. Any attack upon or seizure of any vessel, or the taking away of

the whole or part thereof or its cargo, equipment, or the personal

belongings of its complement or passengers, irrespective of the value

thereof, by means of violence against or intimidation of persons or force

upon things, committed by any person, including a passenger or member

of the complement of said vessel, in Philippine waters, shall be

considered as piracy. The offenders shall be considered as pirates and

punished as hereinafter provided.

e. Highway Robbery/Brigandage. The seizure of any person for ransom,

extortion or other unlawful purposes, or the taking away of the property

of another by means of violence against or intimidation of person or force

upon things of other unlawful means, committed by any person on any

Philippine Highway.

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b) Punishable acts

Section 3. Penalties. Any person who commits piracy or highway

robbery/brigandage as herein defined, shall, upon conviction by

competent court be punished by:

a. Piracy. The penalty of reclusion temporal in its medium and

maximum periods shall be imposed. If physical injuries or other crimes

are committed as a result or on the occasion thereof, the penalty of

reclusion perpetua shall be imposed. If rape, murder or homicide is

committed as a result or on the occasion of piracy, or when the offenders

abandoned the victims without means of saving themselves, or when the

seizure is accomplished by firing upon or boarding a vessel, the

mandatory penalty of death shall be imposed.

b. Highway Robbery/Brigandage. The penalty of reclusion temporal in

its minimum period shall be imposed. If physical injuries or other crimes

are committed during or on the occasion of the commission of robbery or

brigandage, the penalty of reclusion temporal in its medium and

maximum periods shall be imposed. If kidnapping for ransom or

extortion, or murder or homicide, or rape is committed as a result or on

the occasion thereof, the penalty of death shall be imposed.

Section 4. Aiding pirates or highway robbers/brigands or abetting

piracy or highway robbery/brigandage. Any person who knowingly and

in any manner aids or protects pirates or highway robbers/brigands,

such as giving them information about the movement of police or other

peace officers of the government, or acquires or receives property taken

by such pirates or brigands or in any manner derives any benefit

therefrom; or any person who directly or indirectly abets the commission

of piracy or highway robbery or brigandage, shall be considered as an

accomplice of the principal offenders and be punished in accordance

with the Rules prescribed by the Revised Penal Code.

It shall be presumed that any person who does any of the acts provided

in this Section has performed knowingly, unless the contrary is proven.

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P.D. 6235

Anti-Hijacking Law

A. Punishable Acts

1. Compelling the pilot of an aircraft of Phil registry to change course or

destination or

otherwise usurping or seizing control while it is in flight.

In Flight. All the exterior doors are closed following embarkation until opened

for disembarkation (although it has not moved away)

2. Compelling an aircraft of foreign registry to land in any part of Philippine

territory or usurping or seizing control of such, while it is within

Philippine territory. In usurping control, it is not required that the

aircraft be a public utility.

Qualifying Circumstances (for nos. 1 & 2)

a. Firing upon the pilot, crew, or passenger

b. Exploding or attempting to explode any bomb or explosive to

destroy the aircraft; or

c. The crime is accompanied by murder, homicide, serious physical

injuries, or rape.

3. Carrying or loading on board a passenger aircraft operating as a public

utility in the Philippines, substances which are corrosive, flammable,

explosive, or poisonous. (Mere carrying brings about criminal liability)

4. Shipping or loading such substances on a cargo aircraft operating as a

public utility in the Philippines in a manner not in accordance with the

rules and regulations issued by the Air Transportation Office (ATO).

(Non-compliance with ATO rules and regulations)

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Republic Act No. 9775

ANTI-CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ACT OF 2009

A. Definition of Terms

(a) "Child" refers to a person below eighteen (18) years of age or over, but is unable to

fully take care of himself/herself from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation or

discrimination because of a physical or mental disability or condition.

For the purpose of this Act, a child shall also refer to:

(1) a person regardless of age who is presented, depicted or portrayed as a child

as defined herein; and

(2) computer-generated, digitally or manually crafted images or graphics of a

person who is represented or who is made to appear to be a child as defined

herein.

(b) "Child pornography" refers to any representation, whether visual, audio, or written

combination thereof, by electronic, mechanical, digital, optical, magnetic or any other

means, of child engaged or involved in real or simulated explicit sexual activities.

(c) "Explicit Sexual Activity" includes actual or simulated -

(1) As to form:

(i) sexual intercourse or lascivious act including, but not limited to, contact

involving genital to genital, oral to genital, anal to genital, or oral to anal,

whether between persons of the same or opposite sex;

(2) bestiality;

(3) masturbation;

(4) sadistic or masochistic abuse;

(5) lascivious exhibition of the genitals, buttocks, breasts, pubic area and/or

anus; or

(6) use of any object or instrument for lascivious acts

(d) "Internet address" refers to a website, bulletin board service, internet chat room or

news group, or any other internet or shared network protocol address.

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(e) "Internet cafe or kiosk" refers to an establishment that offers or proposes to offer

services to the public for the use of its computer/s or computer system for the

purpose of accessing the internet, computer games or related services.

(f) "Internet content host" refers to a person who hosts or who proposes to host

internet content in the Philippines.

(g) "Internet service provider (ISP)" refers to a person or entity that supplies or

proposes to supply, an internet carriage service to the public.

(h) "Grooming" refers to the act of preparing a child or someone who the offender

believes to be a child for sexual activity or sexual relationship by communicating any

form of child pornography. It includes online enticement or enticement through any

other means.

(i) "Luring" refers to the act of communicating, by means of a computer system, with a

child or someone who the offender believes to be a child for the purpose of facilitating

the commission of sexual activity or production of any form of child pornography.(2)

Bestiality;

(j) "Pandering" refers to the act of offering, advertising, promoting, representing or

distributing through any means any material or purported material that is intended to

cause another to believe that the material or purported material contains any form of

child pornography, regardless of the actual content of the material or purported

material.

(k) "Person" refers to any natural or juridical entity.

B. Unlawful or Punishable Acts

It shall be unlawful for any person:

(a) To hire, employ, use, persuade, induce or coerce a child to perform in the

creation or production of any form of child pornography;

(b) To produce, direct, manufacture or create any form of child pornography;

(c) To publish offer, transmit, sell, distribute, broadcast, advertise, promote,

export or import any form of child pornography;

(d) To possess any form of child pornography with the intent to sell, distribute,

publish, or broadcast: Provided. That possession of three (3) or more articles of

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child pornography of the same form shall be prima facie evidence of the intent

to sell, distribute, publish or broadcast;

(e) To knowingly, willfully and intentionally provide a venue for the commission

of prohibited acts as, but not limited to, dens, private rooms, cubicles, cinemas,

houses or in establishments purporting to be a legitimate business;

(f) For film distributors, theaters and telecommunication companies, by

themselves or in cooperation with other entities, to distribute any form of child

pornography;

(g) For a parent, legal guardian or person having custody or control of a child to

knowingly permit the child to engage, participate or assist in any form of child

pornography;

(h) To engage in the luring or grooming of a child;

(i) To engage in pandering of any form of child pornography;

(j) To willfully access any form of child pornography;

(k) To conspire to commit any of the prohibited acts stated in this section.

Conspiracy to commit any form of child pornography shall be committed when

two (2) or more persons come to an agreement concerning the commission of

any of the said prohibited acts and decide to commit it; and

(l) To possess any form of child pornography.

Republic Act No. 8049

ANTI-HAZING LAW

A. Hazing

As used in this Act, is an initiation rite or practice as a prerequisite for

admission into membership in a fraternity, sorority or organization by placing the

recruit, neophyte or applicant in some embarrassing or humiliating situations such as

forcing him to do menial, silly, foolish and other similar tasks or activities or otherwise

subjecting him to physical or psychological suffering or injury.

B. Allowed initiation rites

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No hazing or initiation rites in any form or manner by a fraternity, sorority or

organization shall be allowed without prior written notice to the school authorities or

head of organization seven (7) days before the conduct of such initiation. The written

notice shall indicate the period of the initiation activities which shall not exceed three

(3) days, shall include the names of those to be subjected to such activities, and shall

further contain an undertaking that no physical violence be employed by anybody

during such initiation rites.

C. Who are liable

1) Death or Physical Injuries

As Principal(s)

Officers or members who actually participated

Parents of officers or members when hazing was held in their home with

actual knowledge but failed to take any action to prevent it

Officers, former officers or alumni of an organization who actually

planned hazing although not present

Knowingly cooperated by inducing the victim to be present

Adviser who was present when hazing was committed and failed to take

any action to prevent it

As Accomplice

School authorities or faculty who consent or have actual knowledge but

failed to take any action to prevent it

Owner of the place who has actual knowledge of hazing but failed to take

any action against the prohibited acts

The presence of any person during the hazing is prima facie evidence of

participation therein as principal unless he prevented the commission of the acts

punishable herein.

Any person charged under this provision shall not be entitled to the mitigating

circumstance that there was no intention to commit so grave a wrong.

This section shall apply to the president, manager, director or other responsible

officer of a corporation engaged in hazing as a requirement for employment in the

manner provided herein.

D. Punishable Acts

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If the person subjected to hazing or other forms of initiation rites suffers any

physical injury or dies as a result thereof, the officers and members of the fraternity,

sorority or organization who actually participated in the infliction of physical harm

shall be liable as principals. The person or persons who participated in the hazing

shall suffer:

1. The penalty of reclusion perpetua (life imprisonment) if death, rape, sodomy or

mutilation results there from.

2. The penalty of reclusion temporal in its maximum period (17 years, 4 months

and 1 day to 20 years) if in consequence of the hazing the victim shall become insane,

imbecile, impotent or blind.

3. The penalty of reclusion temporal in its medium period (14 years, 8 months and

one day to 17 years and 4 months) if in consequence of the hazing the victim shall

have lost the use of speech or the power to hear or to smell, or shall have lost an eye, a

hand, a foot, an arm or a leg or shall have lost the use of any such member shall have

become incapacitated for the activity or work in which he was habitually engaged.

4. The penalty of reclusion temporal in its minimum period (12 years and one day

to 14 years and 8 months) if in consequence of the hazing the victim shall become

deformed or shall have lost any other part of his body, or shall have lost the use

thereof, or shall have been ill or incapacitated for the performance on the activity or

work in which he was habitually engaged for a period of more than ninety (90) days.

5. The penalty of prison mayor in its maximum period (10 years and one day to 12

years) if in consequence of the hazing the victim shall have been ill or incapacitated for

the performance on the activity or work in which he was habitually engaged for a

period of more than thirty (30) days.

6. The penalty of prison mayor in its medium period (8 years and one day to 10

years) if in consequence of the hazing the victim shall have been ill or incapacitated for

the performance on the activity or work in which he was habitually engaged for a

period of ten (10) days or more, or that the injury sustained shall require medical

assistance for the same period.

7. The penalty of prison mayor in its minimum period (6 years and one day to 8

years) if in consequence of the hazing the victim shall have been ill or incapacitated for

the performance on the activity or work in which he was habitually engaged from one

(1) to nine (9) days, or that the injury sustained shall require medical assistance for

the same period.

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8. The penalty of prison correccional in its maximum period (4 years, 2 months

and one day to 6 years) if in consequence of the hazing the victim sustained physical

injuries which do not prevent him from engaging in his habitual activity or work nor

require medical attendance.

The responsible officials of the school or of the police, military or citizen's army

training organization, may impose the appropriate administrative sanctions on the

person or the persons charged under this provision even before their conviction. The

maximum penalty herein provided shall be imposed in any of the following instances:

(a) when the recruitment is accompanied by force, violence, threat, intimidation or

deceit on the person of the recruit who refuses to join;

(b) when the recruit, neophyte or applicant initially consents to join but upon

learning that hazing will be committed on his person, is prevented from quitting;

(c) when the recruit, neophyte or applicant having undergone hazing is prevented

from reporting the unlawful act to his parents or guardians, to the proper school

authorities, or to the police authorities, through force, violence, threat or

intimidation;

(d) when the hazing is committed outside of the school or institution; or

(e) when the victim is below twelve (12) years of age at the time of the hazing.

Republic Act No. 7610

SPECIAL PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AGAINST CHILD

ABUSE, EXPLOITATION, AND DISCRIMINATION ACT

A. Coverage

(a) "Children" refers to person below eighteen (18) years of age or those over but are

unable to fully take care of themselves or protect themselves from abuse, neglect,

cruelty, exploitation or discrimination because of a physical or mental disability or

condition;

(b) "Child abuse" refers to the maltreatment, whether habitual or not, of the child

which includes any of the following:

(1) Psychological and physical abuse, neglect, cruelty, sexual abuse and

emotional maltreatment;

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(2) Any act by deeds or words which debases, degrades or demeans the intrinsic

worth and dignity of a child as a human being;

(3) Unreasonable deprivation of his basic needs for survival, such as food and

shelter; or

(4) Failure to immediately give medical treatment to an injured child resulting in

serious impairment of his growth and development or in his permanent

incapacity or death.

(c) "Circumstances which gravely threaten or endanger the survival and normal

development of children" include, but are not limited to, the following;

(1) Being in a community where there is armed conflict or being affected by

armed conflict-related activities;

(2) Working under conditions hazardous to life, safety and normal which unduly

interfere with their normal development;

(3) Living in or fending for themselves in the streets of urban or rural areas

without the care of parents or a guardian or basic services needed for a good

quality of life;

(4) Being a member of a indigenous cultural community and/or living under

conditions of extreme poverty or in an area which is underdeveloped and/or

lacks or has inadequate access to basic services needed for a good quality of

life;

(5) Being a victim of a man-made or natural disaster or calamity; or

(6) Circumstances analogous to those abovestated which endanger the life,

safety or normal development of children.

(d) "Comprehensive program against child abuse, exploitation and

discrimination" refers to the coordinated program of services and facilities to

protected children against:

(1) Child Prostitution and other sexual abuse;

(2) Child trafficking;

(3) Obscene publications and indecent shows;

(4) Other acts of abuses; and

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(5) Circumstances which threaten or endanger the survival and normal

development of children.1awphi1

B. Child prostitution, punishable acts

Children, whether male or female, who for money, profit, or any other

consideration or due to the coercion or influence of any adult, syndicate or group,

indulge in sexual intercourse or lascivious conduct, are deemed to be children

exploited in prostitution and other sexual abuse.

The penalty of reclusion temporal in its medium period to reclusion perpetua

shall be imposed upon the following:

(a) Those who engage in or promote, facilitate or induce child prostitution which

include, but are not limited to, the following:

(1) Acting as a procurer of a child prostitute;

(2) Inducing a person to be a client of a child prostitute by means of written or

oral advertisements or other similar means;

(3) Taking advantage of influence or relationship to procure a child as

prostitute;

(4) Threatening or using violence towards a child to engage him as a prostitute;

or

(5) Giving monetary consideration goods or other pecuniary benefit to a child

with intent to engage such child in prostitution.

(b) Those who commit the act of sexual intercourse of lascivious conduct with a child

exploited in prostitution or subject to other sexual abuse; Provided, That when the

victims is under twelve (12) years of age, the perpetrators shall be prosecuted under

Article 335, paragraph 3, for rape and Article 336 of Act No. 3815, as amended, the

Revised Penal Code, for rape or lascivious conduct, as the case may be: Provided, That

the penalty for lascivious conduct when the victim is under twelve (12) years of age

shall be reclusion temporal in its medium period; and

(c) Those who derive profit or advantage therefrom, whether as manager or owner of

the establishment where the prostitution takes place, or of the sauna, disco, bar,

resort, place of entertainment or establishment serving as a cover or which engages in

prostitution in addition to the activity for which the license has been issued to said

establishment.

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C. Child trafficking, punishable acts

Section 7. Child Trafficking. – Any person who shall engage in trading and dealing

with children including, but not limited to, the act of buying and selling of a child for

money, or for any other consideration, or barter, shall suffer the penalty of reclusion

temporal to reclusion perpetua. The penalty shall be imposed in its maximum period

when the victim is under twelve (12) years of age.

Section 8. Attempt to Commit Child Trafficking. – There is an attempt to commit

child trafficking under Section 7 of this Act:

(a) When a child travels alone to a foreign country without valid reason therefor

and without clearance issued by the Department of Social Welfare and

Development or written permit or justification from the child's parents or legal

guardian;

(b) When a person, agency, establishment or child-caring institution recruits

women or couples to bear children for the purpose of child trafficking; or

(c) When a doctor, hospital or clinic official or employee, nurse, midwife, local

civil registrar or any other person simulates birth for the purpose of child

trafficking; or

(d) When a person engages in the act of finding children among low-income

families, hospitals, clinics, nurseries, day-care centers, or other child-during

institutions who can be offered for the purpose of child trafficking.

A penalty lower two (2) degrees than that prescribed for the consummated

felony under Section 7 hereof shall be imposed upon the principals of the attempt to

commit child trafficking under this Act.

D. Obscene publication and indecent shows, punishable acts

Any person who shall hire, employ, use, persuade, induce or coerce a child to

perform in obscene exhibitions and indecent shows, whether live or in video, or model

in obscene publications or pornographic materials or to sell or distribute the said

materials shall suffer the penalty of prision mayor in its medium period.

If the child used as a performer, subject or seller/distributor is below twelve

(12) years of age, the penalty shall be imposed in its maximum period.

Any ascendant, guardian, or person entrusted in any capacity with the care of a

child who shall cause and/or allow such child to be employed or to participate in an

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obscene play, scene, act, movie or show or in any other acts covered by this section

shall suffer the penalty of prision mayor in its medium period.

E. Other acts of abuse

(a) Any person who shall commit any other acts of child abuse, cruelty or

exploitation or to be responsible for other conditions prejudicial to the child's

development including those covered by Article 59 of Presidential Decree No. 603, as

amended, but not covered by the Revised Penal Code, as amended, shall suffer the

penalty of prision mayor in its minimum period.

(b) Any person who shall keep or have in his company a minor, twelve (12) years

or under or who in ten (10) years or more his junior in any public or private place,

hotel, motel, beer joint, discotheque, cabaret, pension house, sauna or massage

parlor, beach and/or other tourist resort or similar places shall suffer the penalty of

prision mayor in its maximum period and a fine of not less than Fifty thousand pesos

(P50,000): Provided, That this provision shall not apply to any person who is related

within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity or any bond recognized by law,

local custom and tradition or acts in the performance of a social, moral or legal duty.

(c) Any person who shall induce, deliver or offer a minor to any one prohibited

by this Act to keep or have in his company a minor as provided in the preceding

paragraph shall suffer the penalty of prision mayor in its medium period and a fine of

not less than Forty thousand pesos (P40,000); Provided, however, That should the

perpetrator be an ascendant, stepparent or guardian of the minor, the penalty to be

imposed shall be prision mayor in its maximum period, a fine of not less than Fifty

thousand pesos (P50,000), and the loss of parental authority over the minor.

(d) Any person, owner, manager or one entrusted with the operation of any

public or private place of accommodation, whether for occupancy, food, drink or

otherwise, including residential places, who allows any person to take along with him

to such place or places any minor herein described shall be imposed a penalty of

prision mayor in its medium period and a fine of not less than Fifty thousand pesos

(P50,000), and the loss of the license to operate such a place or establishment.

(e) Any person who shall use, coerce, force or intimidate a street child or any

other child to:

(1) Beg or use begging as a means of living;

(2) Act as conduit or middlemen in drug trafficking or pushing; or

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(3) Conduct any illegal activities, shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional

in its medium period to reclusion perpetua.

For purposes of this Act, the penalty for the commission of acts punishable

under Articles 248, 249, 262, paragraph 2, and 263, paragraph 1 of Act No. 3815, as

amended, the Revised Penal Code, for the crimes of murder, homicide, other

intentional mutilation, and serious physical injuries, respectively, shall be reclusion

perpetua when the victim is under twelve (12) years of age. The penalty for the

commission of acts punishable under Article 337, 339, 340 and 341 of Act No. 3815,

as amended, the Revised Penal Code, for the crimes of qualified seduction, acts of

lasciviousness with the consent of the offended party, corruption of minors, and white

slave trade, respectively, shall be one (1) degree higher than that imposed by law when

the victim is under twelve (12) years age.

The victim of the acts committed under this section shall be entrusted to the

care of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

Republic Act No. 4200

ANTI-WIRE TAPPING ACT

A. Punishable Acts

It shall be unlawful for any person, not being authorized by all the parties to

any private communication or spoken word, to tap any wire or cable, or by using any

other device or arrangement, to secretly overhear, intercept, or record such

communication or spoken word by using a device commonly known as a dictaphone or

dictagraph or dictaphone or walkie-talkie or tape recorder, or however otherwise

described:

It shall also be unlawful for any person, be he a participant or not in the act or

acts penalized in the next preceding sentence, to knowingly possess any tape record,

wire record, disc record, or any other such record, or copies thereof, of any

communication or spoken word secured either before or after the effective date of this

Act in the manner prohibited by this law; or to replay the same for any other person or

persons; or to communicate the contents thereof, either verbally or in writing, or to

furnish transcriptions thereof, whether complete or partial, to any other

person: Provided, That the use of such record or any copies thereof as evidence in any

civil, criminal investigation or trial of offenses mentioned in section 3 hereof, shall not

be covered by this prohibition.

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B. Exceptions

If the wiretapping is done by a public officer who is authorized by written order

of the court in cases involving the crimes of treason, espionage, provoking war and

disloyalty in case of war, piracy, mutiny in the high seas, rebellion, conspiracy and

proposal to commit rebellion, inciting to rebellion, sedition, conspiracy to commit

sedition, inciting to sedition, kidnapping as defined by the RPC, and violations of CA

No. 616, punishing espionage and other offenses against national security.

Presidential Decree No. 1612

ANTI-FENCING LAW

A. Fencing, definition, presumption of fencing

FENCING. the act of any person who, with intent to gain for himself or for

another, shall buy, receive, possess, keep, acquire, conceal, sell or dispose of, or shall

buy and sell, or in any other manner deal in any article, item, object or anything of

value which he knows, or should be known to him, to have been derived from the

proceeds of the crime of robbery or theft.

"Fence" includes any person, firm, association corporation or partnership or

other organization who/which commits the act of fencing.

PRESUMPTION OF FENCING. Mere possession of any good, article, item,

object, or anything of value which has been the subject of robbery or thievery shall be

prima facie evidence of fencing. (Section 5)

B. Exception, with clearance or permit to sell

Section 6. Clearance/Permit to Sell/Used Second Hand Articles. For purposes of

this Act, all stores, establishments or entities dealing in the buy and sell of any good,

article item, object of anything of value obtained from an unlicensed dealer or supplier

thereof, shall before offering the same for sale to the public, secure the necessary

clearance or permit from the station commander of the Integrated National Police in

the town or city where such store, establishment or entity is located. The Chief of

Constabulary/Director General, Integrated National Police shall promulgate such rules

and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section. Any person who fails to

secure the clearance or permit required by this section or who violates any of the

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provisions of the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder shall upon conviction

be punished as a fence.

Batas Pambansa Blg. 22

AN ACT PENALIZING THE MAKING OR DRAWING AND

ISSUANCE OF A CHECK WITHOUT SUFFICIENT FUNDS

OR CREDIT (BOUNCING CHECKS)

A. Elements of the offense penalized under B.P. Blg. 22 are:

Making, drawing, and issuing any check to apply to account or for value;

Knowledge of the maker, drawer, or issuer that at the time of issue he does not

have sufficient funds in or credit with the drawee bank for the payment of the

check in full upon its presentment;

Subsequent dishonor of the check by the drawee bank for insufficiency of funds

or credit, or dishonor of the check for the same reason had not the drawer,

without any valid cause, ordered the bank to stop payment.

B.P. 22 creates a presumption juris tantum that the 2nd element prima facie exists

when the 1st and 3rd elements are present. If not rebutted, it will suffice to sustain a

judgment in favor of the issue, which it purports. Such knowledge of the insufficiency

of petitioner’s funds is legally presumed from the dishonor of his checks for

insufficiency of funds. (Sycip, Jr. vs. CA, G.R. No. 125059, March 17, 2000)

B. Two Ways of Violating B.P. Blg. 22

By making or drawing and issuing a check to apply on account or for value

knowing at the time of issue that the check is not sufficiently funded; and

By having sufficient funds in or credit with the drawee bank but failing to keep

sufficient funds or to maintain a credit to cover the full amount of the check

when presented to the drawee bank within 90 days. (Cueme vs. People, GR. No.

133325, June 30, 2000)

C. B.P. Blg. 22 vs. Estafa

In BP. Blg. 22 even though the check was issued in payment of pre-existing

obligation, liability is incurred whereas, in Estafa the check is issued

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concurrently and reciprocally in payment of the exchange consideration which

is for pre-existing obligation;

In BP. Blg. 22 damage or deceit is immaterial whereas, in Estafa damage or

deceit is essential;

BP. Blg. 22 is a crime against public interest while Estafa is a crime against

property;

In BP. Blg. 22, only the drawer is liable whereas, in Estafa the drawer and

indorsee are liable;

In BP. Blg. 22, the drawer is given 5 banking days from notice of dishonor to

make good the check to avoid criminal liability whereas, in Estafa the drawer

shall be give 3 calendar days after notice of dishonor to make good the cash

value to avoid liability; and

BP. Blg. 22 is malum prohibitum while Estafa is malum in se.

Republic Act No. 6593

ANTI-CARNAPPING ACT OF 1972

A. Registration

Section 3. Registration of motor vehicle engine, engine block and chassis. Within

one year after the approval of this Act, every owner or possessor of unregistered motor

vehicle or parts thereof in knock down condition shall register with the Land

Transportation Commission the motor vehicle engine, engine block and chassis in his

name or in the name of the real owner who shall be readily available to answer any

claim over the registered motor vehicle engine, engine block or chassis. Thereafter, all

motor vehicle engines, engine blocks and chassis not registered with the Land

Transportation Commission shall be considered as untaxed importation or coming

from an illegal source or carnapped, and shall be confiscated in favor of the

Government.

All owners of motor vehicles in all cities and municipalities are required to

register their cars with the local police without paying any charges.

Section 5. Registration of sale, transfer, conveyance, substitution or

replacement of a motor vehicle engine, engine block or chassis. Every sale,

transfer, conveyance, substitution or replacement of a motor vehicle engine, engine

block or chassis of a motor vehicle shall be registered with the Land Transportation

Commission. Motor vehicles assembled and rebuilt or repaired by replacement with

motor vehicle engines, engine blocks and chassis not registered with the Land

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Transportation Commission shall not be issued certificates of registration and shall be

considered as untaxed imported motor vehicles or motor vehicles carnapped or

proceeding from illegal sources.

B. Who are liable

Any person who have direct participation or take part in the taking, with intent

to gain, of a motor vehicle belonging to another without the latter’s consent, or by

means of violence against or intimidation of persons, or by using force upon things.

Any person shall also be liable under this Act if he or she, having a motor

vehicle not registered with the Land Transportation Commission, defaced or tampered

the original factory-inscribed serial number on the motor vehicle engine, engine block

or chassis of the motor vehicle. Such motor vehicle shall not be issued certificates of

registration or motor vehicles carnapped or proceeding from illegal sources.

C. Punishable Acts

1. CARNAPPING. Elements:

There is an actual taking of the vehicle;

That the offender intends to gain from the taking of the vehicle;

The vehicle belongs to a person other than the offender himself; and

The taking is without the consent of the owner or that the taking was

committed by means of violence against or intimidation of persons, or by

using force upon things.

2. QUALIFIED CARNAPPING. Elements:

That the offender carnaps a motor vehicle;

The original design of the offender is carnapping;

The offender kills or rapes the owner, driver or occupant of the

carnapped motor vehicle; and

The killing or rape is perpetrated in the course of the commission of the

carnapping or on the occasion thereof.

3. Defacing or tampering with serial numbers of motor vehicle engines, engine

blocks and chassis.

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Presidential Decree No. 1613

ANTI-ARSON LAW

A. Punishable Acts

SIMPLE ARSON (Section 1)

Any person who burns or sets fire to the property of another shall be punished

by Prision Mayor.

The same penalty shall be imposed when a person sets fire to his own property

under circumstances which expose to danger the life or property of another.

DESTRUCTIVE ARSON (Section 2)

The penalty of Reclusion Temporal in its maximum period to Reclusion

Perpetua shall be imposed if the property burned is any of the following:

1. Any ammunition factory and other establishment where explosives, inflammable or

combustible materials are stored.

2. Any archive, museum, whether public or private, or any edifice devoted to culture,

education or social services.

3. Any church or place of worship or other building where people usually assemble.

4. Any train, airplane or any aircraft, vessel or watercraft, or conveyance for

transportation of persons or property

4. Any building where evidence is kept for use in any legislative, judicial,

administrative or other official proceedings.

5. Any hospital, hotel, dormitory, lodging house, housing tenement, shopping center,

public or private market, theater or movie house or any similar place or building.

6. Any building, whether used as a dwelling or not, situated in a populated or

congested area.

OTHER CASES OF ARSON (Section 3)

The penalty of Reclusion Temporal to Reclusion Perpetua shall be imposed if

the property burned is any of the following:

1. Any building used as offices of the government or any of its agencies;

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2. Any inhabited house or dwelling;

3. Any industrial establishment, shipyard, oil well or mine shaft, platform or tunnel;

4. Any plantation, farm, pastureland, growing crop, grain field, orchard, bamboo grove

or forest;

4. Any rice mill, sugar mill, cane mill or mill central; and

5. Any railway or bus station, airport, wharf or warehouse.

SPECIAL AGGRATIVING CIRCUMSTANCES IN ARSON (Section 4)

The penalty in any case of arson shall be imposed in its maximum period;

1. If committed with intent to gain;

2. If committed for the benefit of another;

3. If the offender is motivated by spite or hatred towards the owner or occupant

of the property burned;

4. If committed by a syndicate.

The offense is committed by a syndicate if it is planned or carried out by a

group of three (3) or more persons.

Republic Act No. 9995

ANTI-PHOTO AND VIDEO VOYEURISM ACT

A. Punishable Acts

It is hereby prohibited and declared unlawful for any person:

(a) To take photo or video coverage of a person or group of persons performing

sexual act or any similar activity or to capture an image of the private area of a

person/s such as the naked or undergarment clad genitals, public area, buttocks or

female breast without the consent of the person/s involved and under circumstances

in which the person/s has/have a reasonable expectation of privacy;

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(b) To copy or reproduce, or to cause to be copied or reproduced, such photo or

video or recording of sexual act or any similar activity with or without consideration;

(c) To sell or distribute, or cause to be sold or distributed, such photo or video

or recording of sexual act, whether it be the original copy or reproduction thereof; or

(d) To publish or broadcast, or cause to be published or broadcast, whether in

print or broadcast media, or show or exhibit the photo or video coverage or recordings

of such sexual act or any similar activity through VCD/DVD, internet, cellular phones

and other similar means or device.

The prohibition under paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) shall apply notwithstanding

that consent to record or take photo or video coverage of the same was given by such

person/s. Any person who violates this provision shall be liable for photo or video

voyeurism as defined herein.

Prohibition to copy, reproduce, sell, distribute, publish or broadcast, if:

With consent to the recording or taking of photo or video coverage, it shall be

violative of this Act.

With consent to the copying, reproduction, selling, distribution, publication or

broadcasting, it shall be a crime punishable under Article 201, 2(b) indecent

shows.

HUMAN SECURITY ACT OF 2007

A. Punishable acts of terrorism

Terrorism is an activity that involves a violent act or an act dangerous to

human life; it is intended to intimidate or coerce a civilization population and to

influence the policy of a government. It is a crime against the law of nations.

Section 3 of R.A No 9372 provides that any person who commits an act

punishable under any of the following provisions of the Revised Penal Code:

a. Article 122 (Piracy in General and Mutiny in the High Seas or in the

Philippine Waters);

b. Article 134 (Rebellion or Insurrection);

c. Article 134-a (Coup d' Etat), including acts committed by private persons;

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d. Article 248 (Murder);

e. Article 267 (Kidnapping and Serious Illegal Detention);

f. Article 324 (Crimes Involving Destruction), or under

1. Presidential Decree No. 1613 (The Law on Arson);

2. Republic Act No. 6969 (Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear

Waste Control Act of 1990);

3. Republic Act No. 5207, (Atomic Energy Regulatory and Liability Act of

1968);

4. Republic Act No. 6235 (Anti-Hijacking Law);

5. Presidential Decree No. 532 (Anti-Piracy and Anti-Highway Robbery

Law of 1974); and,

6. Presidential Decree No. 1866, as amended (Decree Codifying the Laws

on Illegal and Unlawful Possession, Manufacture, Dealing in, Acquisition

or Disposition of Firearms, Ammunitions or Explosives)

Thereby sowing and creating a condition of widespread and extraordinary fear

and panic among the populace, in order to coerce the government to give in to an

unlawful demand shall be guilty of the crime of terrorism and shall suffer the penalty

of forty (40) years of imprisonment, without the benefit of parole as provided for under

Act No. 4103, otherwise known as the Indeterminate Sentence Law, as amended.

B. Who are liable

PRINCIPAL. Any person who commits any of the acts under Section 3 and 4.

ACCOMPLICE. Any person who, not being a principal under Article 17 of the Revised

Penal Code or a conspirator as defined in Section 4 hereof, cooperates in the execution

of either the crime of terrorism or conspiracy to commit terrorism by previous or

simultaneous acts.

ACCESSORY. Any person who, having knowledge of the commission of the crime of

terrorism or conspiracy to commit terrorism, and without having participated therein,

either as principal or accomplice under Articles 17 and 18 of the Revised Penal Code,

takes part subsequent to its commission in any of the following manner: (a) by

profiting himself or assisting the offender to profit by the effects of the crime; (b) by

concealing or destroying the body of the crime, or the effects, or instruments thereof,

in order to prevent its discovery; (c) by harboring, concealing, or assisting in the

escape of the principal or conspirator of the crime.

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C. Period of detention

SEC. 18. Period of Detention Without Judicial Warrant of Arrest. - The

provisions of Article 125 of the Revised Penal Code to the contrary

notwithstanding, any police or law enforcement personnel, who, having been

duly authorized in writing by the Anti-Terrorism Council has taken custody of a

person charged with or suspected of the crime of terrorism or the crime of

conspiracy to commit terrorism shall, without incurring any criminal liability

for delay in the delivery of detained persons to the proper judicial authorities,

deliver said charged or suspected person to the proper judicial authority

within a period of THREE (3) DAYS counted from the moment the said

charged or suspected person has been apprehended or arrested, detained,

and taken into custody by the said police, or law enforcement personnel:

Provided, That the arrest of those suspected of the crime of terrorism or

conspiracy to commit terrorism must result from the surveillance under Section

7 and examination of bank deposits under Section 27 of this Act.

The police or law enforcement personnel concerned shall, before detaining the

person suspected of the crime of terrorism, present him or her before any judge

at the latter's residence or office nearest the place where the arrest took place at

any time of the day or night. It shall be the duty of the judge, among other

things, to ascertain the identity of the police or law enforcement personnel and

the person or persons they have arrested and presented before him or her, to

inquire of them the reasons why they have arrested the person and determine

by questioning and personal observation whether or not the suspect has been

subjected to any physical, moral or psychological torture by whom and why.

The judge shall then submit a written report of what he/she had observed when

the subject was brought before him to the proper court that has jurisdiction

over the case of the person thus arrested. The judge shall forthwith submit

his/her report within three calendar days from the time the suspect was

brought to his/her residence or office.

Immediately after taking custody of a person charged with or suspected of the

crime of terrorism or conspiracy to commit terrorism, the police or law

enforcement personnel shall notify in writing the judge of the court nearest the

place of apprehension or arrest: Provided, That where the arrest is made during

Saturdays, Sundays, holidays or after office hours, the written notice shall be

served at the residence of the judge nearest the place where the accused was

arrested.

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The penalty of ten (10) years and one day to twelve (12) years of imprisonment

shall be imposed upon the police or law enforcement personnel who fails to

notify and judge as Provided in the preceding paragraph.

SEC. 19. Period of Detention in the Event of an Actual or Imminent

Terrorist Attack. - In the event of an actual or imminent terrorist attack,

suspects may not be detained for more than three days without the written

approval of a municipal, city, provincial or regional official of a Human

Rights Commission or judge of the municipal, regional trial court, the

Sandiganbayan or a justice of the Court of Appeals nearest the place of the

arrest. If the arrest is made during Saturdays, Sundays, holidays or after office

hours, the arresting police or law enforcement personnel shall bring the person

thus arrested to the residence of any of the officials mentioned above that is

nearest the place where the accused was arrested. The approval in writing of

any of the said officials shall be secured by the police or law enforcement

personnel concerned within five days after the date of the detention of the

persons concerned: Provided, however, That within three days after the

detention the suspects, whose connection with the terror attack or threat is not

established, shall be released immediately.

D. Absorption principle in relation to complex crimes

When one crime is an element of the other crime, for in that case, the former

shall be absorbed by the latter, hence, cannot be punished either separately therefrom

or by the application of Art. 48 (Complex Crime) of the Revised Penal Code.

E. Failure to deliver suspect to proper judicial authority

Terrorist Suspect under Surveillance

36 hours – If the arrest of the terrorist suspect is not a result from the

surveillance and examination of bank deposits of the suspect or the

apprehending officer is not authorized in writing by the Anti-Terrorism

Council in taking custody of the suspect, officer must deliver him within

36 hours to proper judicial authority; failure to do so constitutes the

crime of Arbitrary Detention under Article 125 of the RPC.

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Three days – Even though the arrest of the terrorist suspect is a result

from the surveillance and examination of bank deposits of the suspect

and the apprehending officer is authorized in writing by Anti-Terrorism

Council in taking custody of the suspect, the officer must just the same

deliver him to the proper judicial authority within a period of three days;

failure to do so constitutes the crime under Section 20 of RA No. 9372.

F. False prosecution

Section 50 of the Act provides that upon acquittal, any person of terrorism shall

be entitled to the payment of damages in the amount of Five hundred thousand pesos

(P 500,000.00) for every day that he or she has been detained or deprived of liberty or

arrested without warrant of arrest as a result of such accusation.

G. Infidelity in the custody of detained persons

Any public officer who has direct custody of a detained person or under the

provisions of this Act and who by his deliberate act, misconduct, or inexcusable

negligence causes or allows the escape of such detained person shall be guilty of an

offense and shall suffer the penalty of: (a) twelve (12) years and one day to twenty (20)

years of imprisonment, if the detained person has already been convicted and

sentenced in a final judgment of a competent court; and (b) six years and one day to

twelve (12) years of imprisonment, if the detained person has not been convicted and

sentenced in a final judgment of a competent court.

H. Surveillance of suspects and interception and recording of communications

The provisions of Republic Act No. 4200 (Anti-Wire Tapping Law) to the contrary

notwithstanding, a police or law enforcement official and the members of his team

may, upon a written order of the Court of Appeals, listen to, intercept and record, with

the use of any mode, form, kind or type of electronic or other surveillance equipment

or intercepting and tracking devices, or with the use of any other suitable ways and

means for that purpose, any communication, message, conversation, discussion, or

spoken or written words between members of a judicially declared and outlawed

terrorist organization, association, or group of persons or of any person charged with

or suspected of the crime of terrorism or conspiracy to commit terrorism.

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Provided, That surveillance, interception and recording of communications

between lawyers and clients, doctors and patients, journalists and their sources and

confidential business correspondence shall not be authorized.

I. Restriction on travel

In cases where evidence of guilt is not strong, and the person charged with the

crime of terrorism or conspiracy to commit terrorism is entitled to bail and is granted

the same, the court, upon application by the prosecutor, shall limit the right of travel

of the accused to within the municipality or city where he resides or where the case is

pending, in the interest of national security and public safety, consistent with Article

III, Section 6 of the Constitution. Travel outside of said municipality or city, without

the authorization of the court, shall be deemed a violation of the terms and conditions

of his bail, which shall then be forfeited as provided under the Rules of Court.

He/she may also be placed under house arrest by order of the court at his or

her usual place of residence.

While under house arrest, he or she may not use telephones, cellphones, e-

mails, computers, the internet or other means of communications with people outside

the residence until otherwise ordered by the court.

The restrictions abovementioned shall be terminated upon the acquittal of the

accused or of the dismissal of the case filed against him or earlier upon the discretion

of the court on motion of the prosecutor or of the accused.

J. Examination of bank deposits and document

Notwithstanding RA 1405 (Bank Secrecy Law), the justices of the Court of

Appeals designated as a special court to handle anti-terrorism cases after

satisfying themselves of the existence of probable cause in a hearing called for

that purpose that:

(1) A person charged with or suspected of the crime of terrorism or conspiracy

to commit terrorism;

(2) Of a judicially declared and outlawed terrorist organization, association, or

group of persons;

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(3) Such person is a member of such judicially declared and outlawed

organization, association, or group of persons, may authorize in writing any police or

law enforcement officer and the members of his or her team duly authorized in writing

by the anti-terrorism council to:

a. Examine, or cause the examination of, the deposits, placements, trust

accounts, assets and records in a bank or financial institution; and

b. Gather or cause the gathering of any relevant information about such

deposits, placements, trust accounts, assets, and records from a bank or

financial institution. The bank or financial institution concerned shall not

refuse to allow such examination or to provide the desired information, when

so, ordered by and served with the written order of the CA. (Sec 27)

K. Unauthorized revelation of classified materials

The penalty of ten (10) years and one day to twelve (12) years of imprisonment

shall be imposed upon any person, police or law enforcement agent, judicial officer or

civil servant who, not being authorized by the Court of Appeals to do so, reveals in any

manner or form any classified information under this Act.

Republic Act No. 9745

Anti-Torture Act of 2009

A. Punishable Acts

(a) Torture

Elements:

Offender intentionally inflicts on a person severe pain or suffering,

whether physical or mental;

Purpose is obtaining from offended party or a third person information or

a confession; punishing him/her for an act he/she or a third person has

committed or is suspected of having committed; or intimidating or coercing

him/her or a third person; or for any reason based on discrimination of any

kind; and

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Such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the

consent or acquiescence of a person in authority or agent of a person in

authority.

(b) "Other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment" refers to a

deliberate and aggravated treatment or punishment not enumerated under Section 4

of this Act, inflicted by a person in authority or agent of a person in authority against

a person under his/her custody, which attains a level of severity causing suffering,

gross humiliation or debasement to the latter.

Section 4. Acts of Torture. - For purposes of this Act, torture shall include, but not

be limited to, the following:

(a) Physical torture is a form of treatment or punishment inflicted by a person

in authority or agent of a person in authority upon another in his/her custody

that causes severe pain, exhaustion, disability or dysfunction of one or more

parts of the body, such as:

(1) Systematic beating, headbanging, punching, kicking, striking with

truncheon or rifle butt or other similar objects, and jumping on the

stomach;

(2) Food deprivation or forcible feeding with spoiled food, animal or

human excreta and other stuff or substances not normally eaten;

(3) Electric shock;

(4) Cigarette burning; burning by electrically heated rods, hot oil, acid; by

the rubbing of pepper or other chemical substances on mucous

membranes, or acids or spices directly on the wound(s);

(5) The submersion of the head in water or water polluted with

excrement, urine, vomit and/or blood until the brink of suffocation;

(6) Being tied or forced to assume fixed and stressful bodily position;

(7) Rape and sexual abuse, including the insertion of foreign objects into

the sex organ or rectum, or electrical torture of the genitals;

(8) Mutilation or amputation of the essential parts of the body such as

the genitalia, ear, tongue, etc.;

(9) Dental torture or the forced extraction of the teeth;

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(10) Pulling out of fingernails;

(11) Harmful exposure to the elements such as sunlight and extreme

cold;

(12) The use of plastic bag and other materials placed over the head to

the point of asphyxiation;

(13) The use of psychoactive drugs to change the perception, memory.

alertness or will of a person, such as:

(i) The administration or drugs to induce confession and/or reduce

mental competency; or

(ii) The use of drugs to induce extreme pain or certain symptoms of a

disease; and

(14) Other analogous acts of physical torture; and

(b) "Mental/Psychological Torture" refers to acts committed by a person in

authority or agent of a person in authority which are calculated to affect or

confuse the mind and/or undermine a person's dignity and morale, such as:

(1) Blindfolding;

(2) Threatening a person(s) or his/fher relative(s) with bodily harm,

execution or other wrongful acts;

(3) Confinement in solitary cells or secret detention places;

(4) Prolonged interrogation;

(5) Preparing a prisoner for a "show trial", public display or public

humiliation of a detainee or prisoner;

(6) Causing unscheduled transfer of a person deprived of liberty from one

place to another, creating the belief that he/she shall be summarily

executed;

(7) Maltreating a member/s of a person's family;

(8) Causing the torture sessions to be witnessed by the person's family,

relatives or any third party;

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(9) Denial of sleep/rest;

(10) Shame infliction such as stripping the person naked, parading

him/her in public places, shaving the victim's head or putting marks on

his/her body against his/her will;

(11) Deliberately prohibiting the victim to communicate with any member

of his/her family; and

(12) Other analogous acts of mental/psychological torture.

B. Who are liable

Any person who actually participated or induced another in the

commission of torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or

punishment or who cooperated in the execution of the act of torture or other cruel,

inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment by previous or simultaneous acts

shall be liable as principal.

Any superior military, police or law enforcement officer or senior

government official who issued an order to any lower ranking personnel to

commit torture for whatever purpose shall be held equally liable as principals.

The immediate commanding officer of the unit concerned of the AFP or

the immediate senior public official of the PNP and other law enforcement

agencies shall be held liable as a principal to the crime of torture or other cruel or

inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment for any act or omission, or

negligence committed by him/her that shall have led, assisted, abetted or allowed,

whether directly or indirectly, the commission thereof by his/her subordinates. If

he/she has knowledge of or, owing to the circumstances at the time, should have

known that acts of torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or

punishment shall be committed, is being committed, or has been committed by

his/her subordinates or by others within his/her area of responsibility and, despite

such knowledge, did not take preventive or corrective action either before, during or

immediately after its commission, when he/she has the authority to prevent or

investigate allegations of torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or

punishment but failed to prevent or investigate allegations of such act, whether

deliberately or due to negligence shall also be liable as principals.

Any public officer or employee shall be liable as an accessory if he/she has

knowledge that torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or

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punishment is being committed and without having participated therein, either as

principal or accomplice, takes part subsequent to its commission in any of the

following manner:

(a) By themselves profiting from or assisting the offender to profit from the

effects of the act of torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or

punishment;

(b) By concealing the act of torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading

treatment or punishment and/or destroying the effects or instruments thereof

in order to prevent its discovery; or(c) By harboring, concealing or assisting m

the escape of the principal/s in the act of torture or other cruel, inhuman and

degrading treatment or punishment: Provided, That the accessory acts are done

with the abuse of the official's public functions.

Republic Act No. 9194

Anti-Money Laundering Act

A. Punishable Acts

SECTION 3. Section 3(i) of the same Act is further amended to read as follows:

(i) 'Unlawful activity' refers to any act or omission or series or combination thereof

involving or having direct relation to following:

(1) Kidnapping for ransom under Article 267 of Act No. 3815, otherwise known as the

Revised Penal Code, as amended;

(2) Sections 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of Republic Act No. 9165,

otherwise known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Act of 2002;

(3) Section 3 paragraphs B, C, E, G, H and I of republic Act No. 3019, as amended,

otherwise known as the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act;

(4) Plunder under Republic Act No. 7080, as amended;

(5) Robbery and extortion under Articles 294, 295, 296, 299, 300, 301 and 302 of the

Revised Penal Code, as amended;

(6) Jueteng and Masiao punished as illegal gambling under Presidential Decree No.

1602;

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(7) Piracy on the high seas under the Revised Penal Code, as amended and

Presidential under the Revised Penal Code, as amended and Presidential Decree No.

532;

(8) Qualified theft under Article 310 of the Revised penal Code, as amended;

(9) Swindling under Article 315 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended;

(10) Smuggling under Republic Act Nos. 455 and 1937;

(11) Violations under Republic Act No. 8792, otherwise known as the Electrinic

Commerce Act of 2000;

(12) Hijacking and other violations under Republic Act No. 6235; destructive arson

and murder, as defined under the Revised Penal Code, as amended, including those

perpetrated by terrorists against non-combatant persons and similar targets;

(13) Fraudulent practices and other violations under Republic Act No. 8799, otherwise

known as the Securities Regulation Code of 2000;

(14) Felonies or offenses of a similar nature that are punishable under the penal laws

of other countries."

SECTION 4. Section 4 of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 4. Money Laundering Offense. -- Money laundering is a crime whereby the

proceeds of an unlawful activity as herein defined are transacted, thereby making

them appear to have originated from legitimate sources. It is committed by the

following:

(a) Any person knowing that any monetary instrument or property represents,

involves, or relates to, the proceeds of any unlawful activity, transacts or attempts to

transacts said monetary instrument or property.

(b) Any person knowing that any monetary instrument or property involves the

proceeds of any unlawful activity, performs or fails to perform any act as a result of

which he facilitates the offense of money laundering referred to in paragraph (a) above.

(c) Any person knowing that any monetary instrument or property is required under

this Act to be disclosed and filed with the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC),

fails to do so."

B. Covered transaction

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This refers to the transaction in cash or other equivalent monetary instrument

involving a total amount in excess of Five hundred thousand pesos (Php 500,000.00)

within one (1) banking day.

C. Suspicious Transaction

These are transactions with covered institutions, regardless of the amounts involved,

where any of the following circumstances exist:

1. There is no underlying legal or trade obligation, purpose or economic justification;

2. The client is not properly identified;

3. The amount involved is not commensurate with the business or financial capacity of

the client;

4. Taking into account all known circumstances, it may be perceived that the client's

transaction is structured in order to avoid being the subject of reporting requirements

under the Act;

5. Any circumstances relating to the transaction which is observed to deviate from the

profile of the client and/or the client's past transactions with the covered institution;

6. The transactions is in a way related to an unlawful activity or offense under this Act

that is about to be, is being or has been committed; or

7. Any transactions that is similar or analogous to any of the foregoing.

P.D. 1602 as Amended by R.A. 9287

An Act Increasing the Penalties for Illegal Numbers

Games

Illegal numbers game refers to any form illegal gambling activity which uses numbers

or combinations thereof as factors in giving out jackpots.

A. Punishable Acts

Bettor ("Mananaya", "Tayador" or variants thereof). Any person who places

bets for himself/herself or in behalf of another person, or any person, other

than the personnel or staff of any illegal numbers game operation.

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Personnel or Staff of Illegal Numbers Game Operation. Any person, who acts

in the interest of the maintainer, manager or operator, such as, but not limited

to, an accountant, cashier, checker, guard, runner, table manager, usher,

watcher, or any other personnel performing such similar functions in a building

structure, vessel, vehicle, or any other place where an illegal numbers game is

operated or conducted.

o The same penalty shall be imposed to any person who allows his vehicle,

house, building or land to be used in the operation of the illegal numbers

games.

Collector or Agent ("Cabo", "Cobrador", "Coriador" or variants thereof). Any

person who collects, solicits or produces bets in behalf of his/her principal for

any illegal numbers game who is usually in possession of gambling

paraphernalia.

Coordinator, Controller or Supervisor ("Encargado" or variants thereof).

Any person who exercises control and supervision over the collector or agent.

Maintainer, Manager or Operator. Any person who maintains, manages or

operates any illegal number game in a specific area from whom the coordinator,

controller or supervisor, and collector or agent take orders.

Financiers or Capitalist. Any person who finances the operations of any illegal

numbers game.

Protector or Coddler. Any person who lends or provides protection, or receives

benefits in any manner in the operation of any illegal numbers game.

Republic Act No. 9208

Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003

Elements: 1. Act

2. Means

3. Exploitive purpose (s)

A. Punishable Acts

Section 4. Acts of Trafficking in Persons. It shall be unlawful for any person,

natural or juridical, to commit any of the following acts:

(a) To recruit, transport, transfer; harbor, provide, or receive a person by any

means, including those done under the pretext of domestic or overseas

employment or training or apprenticeship, for the purpose of prostitution,

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pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, involuntary servitude or

debt bondage;

(b) To introduce or match for money, profit, or material, economic or other

consideration, any person or, as provided for under Republic Act No. 6955, any

Filipino woman to a foreign national, for marriage for the purpose of acquiring,

buying, offering, selling or trading him/her to engage in prostitution,

pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, involuntary servitude or

debt bondage;

(c) To offer or contract marriage, real or simulated, for the purpose of acquiring,

buying, offering, selling, or trading them to engage in prostitution, pornography,

sexual exploitation, forced labor or slavery, involuntary servitude or debt

bondage;

(d) To undertake or organize tours and travel plans consisting of tourism

packages or activities for the purpose of utilizing and offering persons for

prostitution, pornography or sexual exploitation;

(e) To maintain or hire a person to engage in prostitution or pornography;

(f) To adopt or facilitate the adoption of persons for the purpose of prostitution,

pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, involuntary servitude or

debt bondage;

(g) To recruit, hire, adopt, transport or abduct a person, by means of threat or

use of force, fraud, deceit, violence, coercion, or intimidation for the purpose of

removal or sale of organs of said person; and

(h) To recruit, transport or adopt a child to engage in armed activities in the

Philippines or abroad.

Section 5. Acts that Promote Trafficking in Persons. The following acts which

promote or facilitate trafficking in persons, shall be unlawful:

(a) To knowingly lease or sublease, use or allow to be used any house, building

or establishment for the purpose of promoting trafficking in persons;

(b) To produce, print and issue or distribute unissued, tampered or fake

counseling certificates, registration stickers and certificates of any government

agency which issues these certificates and stickers as proof of compliance with

government regulatory and pre-departure requirements for the purpose of

promoting trafficking in persons;

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(c) To advertise, publish, print, broadcast or distribute, or cause the

advertisement, publication, printing, broadcasting or distribution by any

means, including the use of information technology and the internet, of any

brochure, flyer, or any propaganda material that promotes trafficking in

persons;

(d) To assist in the conduct of misrepresentation or fraud for purposes of

facilitating the acquisition of clearances and necessary exit documents from

government agencies that are mandated to provide pre-departure registration

and services for departing persons for the purpose of promoting trafficking in

persons;

(e) To facilitate, assist or help in the exit and entry of persons from/to the

country at international and local airports, territorial boundaries and seaports

who are in possession of unissued, tampered or fraudulent travel documents

for the purpose of promoting trafficking in persons;

(f) To confiscate, conceal, or destroy the passport, travel documents, or personal

documents or belongings of trafficked persons in furtherance of trafficking or to

prevent them from leaving the country or seeking redress from the government

or appropriate agencies; and

(g) To knowingly benefit from, financial or otherwise, or make use of, the labor

or services of a person held to a condition of involuntary servitude, forced labor,

or slavery.

Section 6. Qualified Trafficking in Persons. The following are considered as

qualified trafficking:

(a) When the trafficked person is a child;

(b) When the adoption is effected through Republic Act No. 8043, otherwise

known as the "Inter-Country Adoption Act of 1995" and said adoption is for the

purpose of prostitution, pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery,

involuntary servitude or debt bondage;

(c) When the crime is committed by a syndicate, or in large scale. Trafficking is

deemed committed by a syndicate if carried out by a group of three (3) or more

persons conspiring or confederating with one another. It is deemed committed

in large scale if committed against three (3) or more persons, individually or as

a group;

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(d) When the offender is an ascendant, parent, sibling, guardian or a person

who exercises authority over the trafficked person or when the offense is

committed by a public officer or employee;

(e) When the trafficked person is recruited to engage in prostitution with any

member of the military or law enforcement agencies;

(f) When the offender is a member of the military or law enforcement agencies;

and

(g) When by reason or on occasion of the act of trafficking in persons, the

offended party dies, becomes insane, suffers mutilation or is afflicted with

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or the Acquired Immune Deficiency

Syndrome (AIDS).

Republic Act No. 3019

Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act

A. Coverage

All public officers which includes elective and appointive officials and

employees, permanent or temporary, whether in the classified or unclassified or

exempt service, receiving compensation, even nominal from the government.

Government includes:

National Government

Local Government

GOCCs

Other instrumentalities or agencies

Their branches

B. Punishable Acts

Section 3. Corrupt practices of public officers. In addition to acts or omissions of

public officers already penalized by existing law, the following shall constitute corrupt

practices of any public officer and are hereby declared to be unlawful:

(a) Persuading, inducing or influencing another public officer to perform an act

constituting a violation of rules and regulations duly promulgated by competent

authority or an offense in connection with the official duties of the latter, or

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allowing himself to be persuaded, induced, or influenced to commit such violation

or offense.

(b) Directly or indirectly requesting or receiving any gift, present, share, percentage,

or benefit, for himself or for any other person, in connection with any contract or

transaction between the Government and any other part, wherein the public officer

in his official capacity has to intervene under the law.

(c) Directly or indirectly requesting or receiving any gift, present or other pecuniary

or material benefit, for himself or for another, from any person for whom the public

officer, in any manner or capacity, has secured or obtained, or will secure or

obtain, any Government permit or license, in consideration for the help given or to

be given, without prejudice to Section thirteen of this Act.

(d) Accepting or having any member of his family accept employment in a private

enterprise which has pending official business with him during the pendency

thereof or within one year after its termination.

(e) Causing any undue injury to any party, including the Government, or giving any

private party any unwarranted benefits, advantage or preference in the discharge of

his official administrative or judicial functions through manifest partiality, evident

bad faith or gross inexcusable negligence. This provision shall apply to officers and

employees of offices or government corporations charged with the grant of licenses

or permits or other concessions.

(f) Neglecting or refusing, after due demand or request, without sufficient

justification, to act within a reasonable time on any matter pending before him for

the purpose of obtaining, directly or indirectly, from any person interested in the

matter some pecuniary or material benefit or advantage, or for the purpose of

favoring his own interest or giving undue advantage in favor of or discriminating

against any other interested party.

(g) Entering, on behalf of the Government, into any contract or transaction

manifestly and grossly disadvantageous to the same, whether or not the public

officer profited or will profit thereby.

(h) Director or indirectly having financing or pecuniary interest in any business,

contract or transaction in connection with which he intervenes or takes part in his

official capacity, or in which he is prohibited by the Constitution or by any law

from having any interest.

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(i) Directly or indirectly becoming interested, for personal gain, or having a material

interest in any transaction or act requiring the approval of a board, panel or group

of which he is a member, and which exercises discretion in such approval, even if

he votes against the same or does not participate in the action of the board,

committee, panel or group.

Interest for personal gain shall be presumed against those public officers

responsible for the approval of manifestly unlawful, inequitable, or irregular

transaction or acts by the board, panel or group to which they belong.

(j) Knowingly approving or granting any license, permit, privilege or benefit in favor

of any person not qualified for or not legally entitled to such license, permit,

privilege or advantage, or of a mere representative or dummy of one who is not so

qualified or entitled.

(k) Divulging valuable information of a confidential character, acquired by his office

or by him on account of his official position to unauthorized persons, or releasing

such information in advance of its authorized release date.

Other Prohibited Acts:

Section 4. Prohibition on private individuals.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person having family or close personal relation with

any public official to capitalize or exploit or take advantage of such family or close

personal relation by directly or indirectly requesting or receiving any present, gift or

material or pecuniary advantage from any other person having some business,

transaction, application, request or contract with the government, in which such

public official has to intervene. Family relation shall include the spouse or relatives

by consanguinity or affinity in the third civil degree. The word "close personal

relation" shall include close personal friendship, social and fraternal connections,

and professional employment all giving rise to intimacy which assures free access

to such public officer.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to induce or cause any public

official to commit any of the offenses defined in Section 3 hereof.

Section 5. Prohibition on certain relatives. It shall be unlawful for the spouse or for

any relative, by consanguinity or affinity, within the third civil degree, of the President

of the Philippines, the Vice-President of the Philippines, the President of the Senate, or

the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to intervene, directly or indirectly, in any

business, transaction, contract or application with the Government: Provided, That

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this section shall not apply to any person who, prior to the assumption of office of any

of the above officials to whom he is related, has been already dealing with the

Government along the same line of business, nor to any transaction, contract or

application already existing or pending at the time of such assumption of public office,

nor to any application filed by him the approval of which is not discretionary on the

part of the official or officials concerned but depends upon compliance with requisites

provided by law, or rules or regulations issued pursuant to law, nor to any act lawfully

performed in an official capacity or in the exercise of a profession.

Section 6. Prohibition on Members of Congress. It shall be unlawful hereafter for

any Member of the Congress during the term for which he has been elected, to acquire

or receive any personal pecuniary interest in any specific business enterprise which

will be directly and particularly favored or benefited by any law or resolution authored

by him previously approved or adopted by the Congress during the same term.

The provision of this section shall apply to any other public officer who

recommended the initiation in Congress of the enactment or adoption of any law or

resolution, and acquires or receives any such interest during his incumbency.

It shall likewise be unlawful for such member of Congress or other public officer,

who, having such interest prior to the approval of such law or resolution authored or

recommended by him, continues for thirty days after such approval to retain such

interest.

C. Exceptions

Unsolicited gifts or presents of small or insignificant value offered or given as a

mere ordinary token of gratitude or friendship according to local customs or usage,

shall be excepted from the provisions of this Act.

R.A. 7080

ANTI-PLUNDER ACT

A. Definition of terms

a) Public Officer means any person holding any public office in the Government of the

Republic of the Philippines by virtue of an appointment, election or contract.

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b) Government includes the National Government, and any of its subdivisions,

agencies or instrumentalities, including government-owned or -controlled corporations

and their subsidiaries.

c) Person includes any natural or juridical person, unless the context indicates

otherwise.

d) Ill-gotten wealth means any asset, property, business enterprise or material

possession of any person within the purview of Section Two (2) hereof, acquired by

him directly or indirectly through dummies, nominees, agents, subordinates and/or

business associates by any combination or series of the following means or similar

schemes:

1) Through misappropriation, conversion, misuse, or malversation of public funds or

raids on the public treasury;

2) By receiving, directly or indirectly, any commission, gift, share, percentage,

kickbacks or any other form of pecuniary benefit from any person and/or entity in

connection with any government contract or project or by reason of the office or

position of the public officer concerned;

3) By the illegal or fraudulent conveyance or disposition of assets belonging to the

National Government or any of its subdivisions, agencies or instrumentalities or

government-owned or -controlled corporations and their subsidiaries;

4) By obtaining, receiving or accepting directly or indirectly any shares of stock, equity

or any other form of interest or participation including promise of future employment

in any business enterprise or undertaking;

5) By establishing agricultural, industrial or commercial monopolies or other

combinations and/or implementation of decrees and orders intended to benefit

particular persons or special interests; or

6) By taking undue advantage of official position, authority, relationship, connection

or influence to unjustly enrich himself or themselves at the expense and to the

damage and prejudice of the Filipino people and the Republic of the Philippines.

B. Ill-gotten wealth

It refers to any asset, property, business enterprise or material possession of any

person within the purview of Section Two (2) hereof, acquired by him directly or

indirectly through dummies, nominees, agents, subordinates and/or business

associates by any combination or series mentioned in Section 1, paragraph d.

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C. Plunder

It is the crime of public officers amassing wealth involving atleast 50 Million by means

of combination or series of overt acts each of which may constitute different offenses.

Section 2. Definition of the Crime of Plunder; Penalties. Any public officer who, by

himself or in connivance with members of his family, relatives by affinity or

consanguinity, business associates, subordinates or other persons, amasses,

accumulates or acquires ill-gotten wealth through a combination or series of overt or

criminal acts as described in Section 1(d) hereof, in the aggregate amount or total

value of at least Seventy-five million pesos (P75,000,000.00), shall be guilty of the

crime of plunder and shall be punished by life imprisonment with perpetual absolute

disqualification from holding any public office. Any person who participated with said

public officer in the commission of plunder shall likewise be punished. In the

imposition of penalties, the degree of participation and the attendance of mitigating

and extenuating circumstances shall be considered by the court. The court shall

declare any and all ill-gotten wealth and their interests and other incomes and assets

including the properties and shares of stock derived from the deposit or investment

thereof forfeited in favor of the State.

D. Series or Combination

SERIES comprises two or more overt or criminal acts falling under the same category

in said section, say misappropriation, malversation and raids on the public treasury,

all of which fall under sub-paragraph (1).

COMBINATION refers to atleast two acts enumerated in Section 1 (d), eg. Raids on the

public treasury in sub-paragraph (1); and fraudulent conveyance of assets belonging

to National government under subparagraph (3)

E. Pattern

As defined in Section 4 in relation to Sections 1 (d) and 2. Under Section 1 (d), a

PATTERN consists of at least a combination or series of overt or criminal acts

enumerated in subsections 1 to 6. In section 2, the pattern of overt or criminal acts is

directed towards a common purpose or goal—to enable the public officer to amass,

accumulate or acquire ill-gotten wealth. There must be an overall unlawful scheme or

conspiracy to achieve said common goal. Overall unlawful scheme indicated a general

plan of action or method which the principal accused and public officer and others

conniving with him follow to achieve the common goal. In the alternative if there is no

such overall scheme or where the schemes or methods used by multiple accused vary,

the overt or criminal acts must form part of a conspiracy to attain a common goal.