Article 140Act No. 3815, Sec./Art. 140

Penalty for sedition.-The leader of a sedition shall suffer the penalty of prision mayor in its minimum period and a fine not exceeding 10,000 pesos.

Other persons participating therein shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional in its maximum period and a fine not exceeding 5,000 pesos.

REVISED PENAL CODE TEXT AND SPECIAL PENAL LAWS

promoters shall officiate in all kinds of cockfighting

authorized in this Decree.

Section 8. Penal Provisions. Any violation of the provisions

of

this

Decree

and

of

the

rules

and

regulations

promulgated

by the Chief of Constabulary pursuant

thereto shall be punished as follows:

a. By prision correccional in its maximum period and a

fine

of

two

thousand

pesos,

with

subsidiary

imprisonment in case of insolvency, when the offender is

the financer, owner, manager or operator of cockpit, or

the gaffer, referee or bet taker in cockfights; or the

offender is guilty of allowing, promoting or participating

in

any

other

kind

of gambling in the premises of

cockfights during cockfights.

b. By prision correccional or a fine of not less than six

hundred pesos nor more than two thousand pesos or

both, such imprisonment and fine at the discretion of the

court, with subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency,

in case of any other offender.

Section 9. Repealing Clause. The provisions of Section

2285 and 2286 of the Revised Penal Code, Republic Act

No. 946, all laws, decrees, rules and regulations, or orders

which

are

inconsistent with this Decree are hereby

repealed or modified accordingly.

Section 10. Date of Effectivity. This Decree shall take

effect after fifteen (15) days following the completion of

the publication in the Official Gazette.

Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of May, in the year

of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.

PD No 483 | Penalizing Betting, Game-fixing Or

Point Shaving And Machinations In Sports

Contests

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 483 June 13, 1974

PENALIZING BETTING, GAME-FIXING OR POINT

SHAVING AND MACHINATIONS IN SPORTS CONTESTS

WHEREAS, the evil that is gambling has again shown its

ugly head in the recently-discovered game-fixing or

point- shaving scandals during sports contests;

WHEREAS, one of the objectives of the New Society is the

development and promotion of desirable moral and

cultural values;

WHEREAS, there is urgent need to protect one youth and

sports

programs

and

the

morality

of

our

society,

especially

the

youth, from the eroding influence of

unscrupulous persons who, through fraudulent schemes

of game-fixing or point-shaving and other machinations,

have made basketball and other sports contests, games

and races their media of subverting the aims and goals of

true Philippine sportsmanship;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, by virtue

of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, and

pursuant to Proclamations No. 1081, dated September 21,

1972 and No. 1104, dated January 17, 1973; and General

Order No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, do hereby order

and decree that the following shall be part of the law of

the land:

Section 1. Definitions. For purposes of this Decree, the

following terms shall mean and be understood to be as

hereunder indicated:

a. Betting money or any object or article of value or

representative of value upon the result of any game, races

and other sports contest.

b. Game-fixing any arrangement, combination, scheme

or agreement by which the result of any game, races or

sports contests shall be predicted and/or known other

than on the basis of the honest playing skill or ability of

the players or participants.

c. Point-shaving any such arrangement, combination,

scheme or agreement by which the skill or ability of any

player or participant in a game, races or sports contests to

make points or scores shall be limited deliberately in

order to influence the result thereof in favor of one or

other team, player or participant therein.

d. Game-machinations any other fraudulent, deceitful,

unfair or dishonest means, method, manner or practice

employed for the purpose of influencing the result of any

game, races or sport contest.

Section 2. Betting, game-fixing, point-shaving or game

machination

unlawful.

Game-fixing,

point-shaving,

machination, as defined in the preceding section, in

connection

with

the games of basketball, volleyball,

softball, baseball; chess, boxing bouts, "jai-alai", "sipa",

"pelota" and all other sports contests, games or races; as

well as betting therein except as may be authorized by

law, is hereby declared unlawful.

Section 3. Penalty. Any violation of this Decree, or of the

rules

and

regulations

promulgated

in

accordance

herewith, shall be punished in the manner following:

a. When the offender is an official, such as promoter,

referee, umpire, judge, or coach in the game, race or

sports

contests,

or

the manager or sponsor of any

participating

team,

individual

or

player

therein,

or

participants or players in such games, races or other

sports contests, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by

prision correccional in its maximum period and a fine of

2,000 pesos with subsidiary imprisonment in case of

insolvency, at the discretion of the court. This penalty

shall also be imposed when the offenders compose a

syndicate of five or more persons.

b. In case of any offender, he shall, upon conviction, be

punished by prision correccional in its medium period

and a fine of 1,000 pesos with subsidiary imprisonment in

case of insolvency at the discretion of the court.

c. When the offender is an official or employee of any

government

office

or

agency

concerned

with

the

enforcement or administration of laws and regulations on

sports the penalty provided for in the preceding Section 3

a small be imposed. In addition, he shall be disqualified

from holding any public office or employment for life. If

he is an alien, he may be deported.

Section 4. Clearance for arrest, detention or prosecution.

No person who voluntarily discloses or denounces to the

President of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation

or to the National Sports Associations concerned and/or

to any law enforcement/police authority any of the acts

penalized by this Decree shall be arrested, detained

and/or prosecuted except upon prior written clearance

from the President of the Philippines and/or of the

Secretary of National Defense.

Section 5. Repealing Clause. Article 197 of Act No. 3815,

otherwise

known

as

the

Revised

Penal

Code,

as

amended, all provisions of decrees, general orders, letters

of instructions, laws, executive orders and rules and

regulations which are inconsistent with this Decree are

hereby repealed.

Section

6.

Effectivity.

This

Decree

shall

take

effect

immediately upon publication thereof by the Secretary of

the Department of Public Information at least once in a

newspaper of general circulation.

Done in the City of Manila, this 13th day of June, in the

year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.

PD No 519 | Outlawing Pinball and Slot

Machines

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 519 July 23, 1974

OUTLAWING PINBALL AND SLOT MACHINES AND

OTHER SIMILAR DEVICES AND NULLIFYING ALL

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