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The Code Commission completed the final draft of the new Civil Code by December 1947, and this was submitted to Congress, which enacted it into law through Republic Act No. 386. The Civil Code took effect in 1950. [1] Due to its wide coverage and impact, the Civil Code is the subject of much study and extensive commentary.
Since 1946, the laws passed by the Congress, including legal codes, have been titled Republic Acts. [ b ] While Philippine legal codes are, strictly speaking, also Republic Acts, they may be differentiated in that the former represents a more comprehensive effort in embodying all aspects of a general area of law into just one legislative act.
Metallurgical Engineering Act of 2015: Repealing the Metallurgical Engineering Act of the Philippines or PD 1536 2015-10-23: 10689: National Indigenous Peoples Day: August 9 2015-10-23: 10690: The Forestry Profession Act: Repealing the Forestry Profession Act or RA 6239 2015-10-26: 10691: Amending the Public Employment Service Office Act of ...
An Act Providing for Stronger Protection Against Rape and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Increasing the Age for Determining the Commission of Statutory Rape, Amending for the Purpose Act No. 3815, as Amended, Otherwise Known as "the Revised Penal Code," Republic Act No. 8353, Also Known as "the Anti-Rape Law of 1997," and Republic Act No. 7610 ...
An Act extending the term of the Office of the President of the Adiong Memorial State College from three (3) years to four (4) years in accordance with Republic Act No. 8292, otherwise known as the "Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997", further amending for the purpose Republic Act No. 7935, as amended by Republic Act No. 8651 June 15, 2023
The act also prohibits the removal or tampering of road infrastructure such as markers, signs, and other road-side facilities. [37] RA 4136 also applies to limited-access highways, more commonly known as expressways, alongside additional traffic laws and restrictions provided by Republic Act No. 2000 and DPWC Administrative Order No. 1 series ...
This work is in the public domain in the Philippines and possibly other jurisdictions because it is a work created by an officer or employee of the Government of the Philippines or any of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, as part of their regularly prescribed official duties ...
Republic Act No. 6968, criminalized coup d'etats; Republic Act No. 8353, amended the law on rape and increased the penalties for it; Republic Act No. 9208, established the Intellectual Property Office; Republic Act No. 9262, criminalized violence against women and their children; Republic Act No. 9287, criminalized human trafficking (later ...