Article 70Act No. 3815, Sec./Art. 70

Successive service of sentences; exception.-When the culprit has to serve two or more penalties, he shall serve them simultaneously if the nature of the penalties will so permit; otherwise, said penalties shall be executed successively, following the order of their respective severity, which shall be determined in accordance with the following scale:

1. Death.

2. Reclusion perpetua.

3. Reclusion temporal.

4. Prision mayor.

5. Prision correctional.

6. Arresto mayor.

7. Arresto menor.

A person sentenced to destierro who is also sentenced to the penalty of prision or arresto shall be required to serve these latter penalties before serving the penalty of destierro.

REVISED PENAL CODE TEXT AND SPECIAL PENAL LAWS

ammonium

dinitro-orthocresolate

and

other

similar

materials and substances.

(4) "Poisonous" is any substance or materials, except

medicinal drug, either liquid, solid or gaseous, which

through chemical reactions kills, injures or impairs a living

organism or person, and shall include but not limited to

allyl isothiocyanate, ammunition (chemical, non-explosive

but containing Class A, B or poison), aniline oil, arsine,

bromobenzyl cyanide, bromoacetone and other similar

substances or materials.

SECTION 6. Any violation of Section three hereof shall be

punishable by an imprisonment of at least five years but

not more than ten years or by a fine of not less than ten

thousand pesos but not more than twenty thousand

pesos: Provided , That if the violation is committed by a

juridical person, the penalty shall be imposed upon the

manager, representative, director, agent or employee

who

violated,

or

caused,

directed,

cooperated

or

participated in the violation thereof: Provided, further ,

That in case the violation is committed in the interest of a

foreign

corporation

legally

doing

business

in

the

Philippines,

the

penalty

shall

be

imposed

upon

its

resident

agent,

manager,

representative

or

director

responsible for such violation and in addition thereto, the

license

of

said

corporation

to

do

business

in

the

Philippines shall be revoked.

Any violation of Section four hereof shall be an offense

punishable with the minimum of the penalty provided in

the next preceding paragraph.

SECTION 7. For any death or injury to persons or damage

to property resulting from a violation of Sections three

and four hereof, the person responsible therefor may be

held liable in accordance with the applicable provisions of

the Revised Penal Code.

SECTION 8. Aircraft companies which operate as public

utilities or operators of aircraft which are for hire are

authorized to open and investigate suspicious packages

and cargoes in the presence of the owner or shipper, or

his authorized representatives if present; in order to help

the authorities in the enforcement of the provisions of

this Act: Provided , That if the owner, shipper or his

representative refuses to have the same opened and

inspected, the airline or air carrier is authorized to refuse

the loading thereof.

SECTION 9. Every ticket issued to a passenger by the

airline or air carrier concerned shall contain among others

the following condition printed thereon: "Holder hereof

and his hand-carried luggage(s) are subject to search for,

and

seizure

of,

prohibited

materials

or

substances.

Holder refusing to be searched shall not be allowed to

board the aircraft," which shall constitute a part of the

contract between the passenger and the air carrier.

SECTION

10.

The

Civil

Aeronautics

Administration is

hereby directed to promulgate within one month after

the approval of this Act such regulations as are provided

in Section four hereof and cause the publication of such

rules and regulations in the Official Gazette and in a

newspaper of national circulation for at least once a week

for three consecutive weeks. Such regulations shall take

effect fifteen days after publication in the Official Gazette .

SECTION 11. This Act shall take effect after the publication

mentioned in the preceding section.

Approved: June 19, 1971

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 67, No. 40, p. 7875

on October 4, 1971

(Prohibiting

Certain

Acts

Inimical

to

Civil

Aviation,

Republic Act No. 6235, [June 19, 1971])

RA No 9851 | Philippine Act on Crimes Against

International Humanitarian Law, Genocide, and

Other Crimes Against Humanity

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9851

AN ACT DEFINING AND PENALIZING CRIMES AGAINST

INTERNATIONAL

HUMANITARIAN

LAW,

GENOCIDE

AND OTHER CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, ORGANIZING

JURISDICTION, DESIGNATING SPECIAL COURTS, AND

FOR RELATED PURPOSES

Be

it

enacted

by

the

Senate

and

House

of

Representatives

of

the

Philippines

in

Congress

assembled:

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

Section 1. Short Title . - This Act shall be known as the

"Philippine

Act

on

Crimes

Against

International

Humanitarian

Law,

Genocide,

and

Other

Crimes

Against Humanity".

Section 2. Declaration of Principles and State Policies. -

(a) The Philippines renounces war as an instrument of

national policy, adopts the generally accepted principles

of international law as part of the law of the land and

adheres to a policy of peace, equality, justice, freedom,

cooperation and amity with all nations.

(b) The state values the dignity of every human person

and guarantees full respect for human rights, including

the rights of indigenous cultural communities and other

vulnerable groups, such as women and children;

(c) It shall be the responsibility of the State and all other

sectors concerned to resolved armed conflict in order to

promote the goal of "Children as Zones of Peace";

(d) The state adopts the generally accepted principles of

international law, including the Hague Conventions of

1907, the Geneva Conventions on the protection of victims

of war and international humanitarian law, as part of the

law our nation;

(e)

The

most

serious

crimes

of

concern

to

the

international

community

as

a

whole

must

not

go

unpunished and their effective prosecution must be

ensured by taking measures at the national level, in order

to put an end to impunity for the perpetrators of these

crimes and thus contribute to the prevention of such

crimes, it being the duty of every State to exercise its

criminal

jurisdiction

over

those

responsible

for

international crimes;

(f)

The

State

shall

guarantee

persons

suspected or

accused

of

having

committed

grave

crimes

under

international law all rights necessary to ensure that their

trial will be fair and prompt in strict accordance with

national and international law and standards for fair trial,

It shall also protect victims, witnesses and their families,

and provide appropriate redress to victims and their

families, It shall ensure that the legal systems in place

provide

accessible

and

gender-sensitive

avenues

of

redress for victims of armed conflict, and

(g)The

State

recognizes

that

the

application of the

provisions of this Act shall not affect the legal status of

the parties to a conflict, nor give an implied recognition of

the status of belligerency

CHAPTER II DEFINITION OF TERMS

Section 3. For purposes of this Act, the term:

(a) "Apartheid' means inhumane acts committed in the

context

of

an

institutionalized

regime of systematic

oppression and domination by one racial group or groups

and committed with the intention of maintaining that

regime

(b)

"Arbitrary

deportation

or

forcible

transfer

of

population" means forced displacement of the persons

concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the

area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds

permitted under domestic or international law.

(c) "Armed conflict" means any use of force or armed

violence between States or a protracted armed violence

between governmental authorities and organized armed

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