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Apart from the crimes penalized in the Revised Penal Code, several other pieces of criminal legislation have been passed, penalizing acts such as illegal possession and trafficking of dangerous drugs, money laundering, and illegal possession of firearms. These laws are called “Special Penal Laws” and they form part of Philippine criminal laws.
For example, while the possession of narcotics had been penalized under the 1930s Revised Penal Code, the wider attention drawn to illegal drugs in the 1960s and the 1970s led to new legislation increasing the penalties for possession and trafficking of narcotics. Instead of enacting amendments to the Revised Penal Code, Congress chose instead ...
Gun law in the Philippines is regulated by the Firearms and Explosives Office of the Philippine National Police. In order to possess a firearm in the Philippines, a person must be at a minimum age of 21 years and pass a background check to be issued a License To Own And Possess Firearms (LTOPF). They must also take a firearms training and ...
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Penalty of prision mayor in its maximum period for the illegal acquisition and/or possession of a major part of a Class-B firearm; and; Penalty of prision mayor in its maximum period for the illegal acquisition and/or possession of ammunition for Class-B firearms. If a person violates this same criminal charge, the criminal charges will combine ...
Knife legislation is defined as the body of statutory law or case law promulgated or enacted by a government or other governing jurisdiction that prohibits, criminalizes, or restricts the otherwise legal manufacture, importation, sale, transfer, possession, transport, or use of knives.
Criminal possession of a weapon generally falls into one of several categories: Simple possession - The strictest of standards, some weapons are prohibited from any form of private ownership at all, even if kept in one's dwelling under secure conditions (such as a safe). Typically, this covers military devices, such as bombs, artillery, machine ...
Amending the Agricultural Land Reform Code or RA 3844: Institutionalizing Direct Credit Support of the Land Bank of the Philippines to Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries, Small Farmers, and Fisherfolk 2016-07-17: 10879: MIMAROPA Act 2016-07-17: 10880: Creating an additional Branch of the Regional Trial Court 2016-07-17: 10881