Article 117Act No. 3815, Sec./Art. 117

Espionage.-The penalty of prision correccional shall be inflicted upon any person who:

1. Without authority therefor, enter a warship, fort or naval or military establishment or reservation to obtain any information, plans, photographs or other data of a confidential nature relative to the defence of the Philippine Archipelago; or

2. Being in possession, by reason of the public office he holds, of the articles, data or information referred to in the preceding paragraph, discloses their contents to a representative of a foreign nation.

The penalty next higher in degree shall be imposed if the offender be a public officer or employee.

SECTION TWO.-Provoking war and disloyalty in case of war

REVISED PENAL CODE TEXT AND SPECIAL PENAL LAWS

DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT OF 1972, AS AMENDED,

PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER

PURPOSES

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of

Representatives of the Philippines in Congress

Section 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known and cited

as the "Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002".

Section 2. Declaration of Policy. – It is the policy of the

State to safeguard the integrity of its territory and the

well-being of its citizenry particularly the youth, from the

harmful effects of dangerous drugs on their physical and

mental well-being, and to defend the same against acts

or

omissions

detrimental

to

their development and

preservation. In view of the foregoing, the State needs to

enhance

further

the

efficacy

of

the

law

against

dangerous drugs, it being one of today's more serious

social ills.

Toward

this

end,

the

government

shall

pursue

an

intensive

and

unrelenting

campaign

against

the

trafficking and use of dangerous drugs and other similar

substances through an integrated system of planning,

implementation and enforcement of anti-drug abuse

policies, programs, and projects. The government shall

however aim to achieve a balance in the national drug

control program so that people with legitimate medical

needs

are

not

prevented

from

being

treated

with

adequate amounts of appropriate medications, which

include the use of dangerous drugs.

It is further declared the policy of the State to provide

effective mechanisms or measures to re-integrate into

society individuals who have fallen victims to drug abuse

or

dangerous drug dependence through sustainable

programs of treatment and rehabilitation.

ARTICLE I Definition of terms

Section 3 . Definitions . As used in this Act, the following

terms shall mean:

(a) Administer. – Any act of introducing any dangerous

drug into the body of any person, with or without his/her

knowledge, by injection, inhalation, ingestion or other

means,

or

of

committing

any

act

of

indispensable

assistance to a person in administering a dangerous drug

to himself/herself unless administered by a duly licensed

practitioner for purposes of medication.

(b) Board. - Refers to the Dangerous Drugs Board under

Section 77, Article IX of this Act.

(c) Centers. - Any of the treatment and rehabilitation

centers for drug dependents referred to in Section 34,

Article VIII of this Act.

(d) Chemical Diversion. – The sale, distribution, supply or

transport

of

legitimately

imported,

in-transit,

manufactured or procured controlled precursors and

essential

chemicals,

in

diluted,

mixtures

or

in

concentrated form, to any person or entity engaged in

the

manufacture

of

any

dangerous drug, and shall

include packaging, repackaging, labeling, relabeling or

concealment

of

such

transaction

through

fraud,

destruction of documents, fraudulent use of permits,

misdeclaration, use of front companies or mail fraud.

(e) Clandestine Laboratory. – Any facility used for the

illegal

manufacture

of

any

dangerous

drug

and/or

controlled precursor and essential chemical.

(f) Confirmatory Test. – An analytical test using a device,

tool or equipment with a different chemical or physical

principle that is more specific which will validate and

confirm the result of the screening test.

(g) Controlled Delivery. – The investigative technique of

allowing an unlawful or suspect consignment of any

dangerous drug and/or controlled precursor and essential

chemical,

equipment

or

paraphernalia,

or

property

believed to be derived directly or indirectly from any

offense, to pass into, through or out of the country under

the supervision of an authorized officer, with a view to

gathering evidence to identify any person involved in any

dangerous

drugs

related

offense,

or

to

facilitate

prosecution of that offense.

(h)

Controlled

Precursors and Essential Chemicals. –

Include those listed in Tables I and II of the 1988 UN

Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and

Psychotropic Substances as enumerated in the attached

annex, which is an integral part of this Act.

(i) Cultivate or Culture. – Any act of knowingly planting,

growing, raising, or permitting the planting, growing or

raising of any plant which is the source of a dangerous

drug.

(j)

Dangerous

Drugs.

–

Include

those

listed

in the

Schedules annexed to the 1961 Single Convention on

Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the 1972 Protocol, and in

the Schedules annexed to the 1971 Single Convention on

Psychotropic Substances as enumerated in the attached

annex which is an integral part of this Act.

(k) Deliver. – Any act of knowingly passing a dangerous

drug to another, personally or otherwise, and by any

means, with or without consideration.

(l) Den, Dive or Resort. – A place where any dangerous

drug and/or controlled precursor and essential chemical

is administered, delivered, stored for illegal purposes,

distributed, sold or used in any form.

(m)

Dispense.

–

Any

act

of giving away, selling or

distributing medicine or any dangerous drug with or

without the use of prescription.

(n) Drug Dependence. – As based on the World Health

Organization definition, it is a cluster of physiological,

behavioral and cognitive phenomena of variable intensity,

in which the use of psychoactive drug takes on a high

priority thereby involving, among others, a strong desire

or a sense of compulsion to take the substance and the

difficulties in controlling substance-taking behavior in

terms of its onset, termination, or levels of use.

(o) Drug Syndicate. – Any organized group of two (2) or

more

persons forming or joining together with the

intention of committing any offense prescribed under

this Act.

(p) 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.

(q) Financier. – Any person who pays for, raises or supplies

money for, or underwrites any of the illegal activities

prescribed under this Act.

(r) Illegal Trafficking. – The illegal cultivation, culture,

delivery, administration, dispensation, manufacture, sale,

trading,

transportation,

distribution,

importation,

exportation and possession of any dangerous drug and/or

controlled precursor and essential chemical.

(s) Instrument. – Any thing that is used in or intended to

be used in any manner in the commission of illegal drug

trafficking or related offenses.

(t) Laboratory Equipment. – The paraphernalia, apparatus,

materials or appliances when used, intended for use or

designed for use in the manufacture of any dangerous

drug and/or controlled precursor and essential chemical,

such as reaction vessel, preparative/purifying equipment,

fermentors, separatory funnel, flask, heating mantle, gas

generator, or their substitute.

(u)

Manufacture.

–

The

production,

preparation,

compounding

or processing of any dangerous drug

and/or controlled precursor and essential chemical, either

directly or indirectly or by extraction from substances of

natural origin, or independently by means of chemical

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