QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 10951)
RA 10951 aims to adjust (increase/decrease as provided) the amount or value of property, damage, and the fines used as bases for determining penalties under the Revised Penal Code.
An infraction is a light felony if the law provides either arresto menor or a fine not exceeding ₱40,000 (or both).
A fine is: (1) afflictive if it exceeds ₱1,200,000; (2) correctional if it does not exceed ₱1,200,000 but is not less than ₱40,000; and (3) light if it is less than ₱40,000.
The fine is not to exceed ₱4,000,000.
No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of at least two witnesses to the same overt act, or on the accused’s confession in open court.
Conspiracy is punished by prision mayor and a fine not exceeding ₱2,000,000; proposal is punished by prision correccional and a fine not exceeding ₱1,000,000.
It imposes arresto mayor (max period) to prision correccional (min period) and a fine not exceeding ₱200,000.
Coup d’état conspiracy/proposal: fine not exceeding ₱1,000,000. Rebellion/insurrection: (1) prision correccional (max period) with fine not exceeding ₱1,000,000 for conspiracy/proposal; and (2) prision correccional (medium period) with fine not exceeding ₱400,000 for the corresponding proposal/conspiracy as stated.
It is prision correccional (medium period) and a fine not exceeding ₱400,000.
prision correccional or a fine ranging from ₱40,000 to ₱400,000, or both.
arresto mayor and a fine not exceeding ₱100,000.
It is deemed tumultuous if caused by more than three (3) persons who are armed or provided with means of violence.
arresto mayor and a fine ranging from ₱40,000 to ₱200,000.
If the counterfeited coins are Philippine coinage: prision correccional (min and medium) and fine not exceeding ₱400,000. If the counterfeited coin is currency of a foreign country: prision correccional (min) and fine not exceeding ₱200,000.
By the amount involved in the misappropriation or malversation, with graduated ranges (e.g., up to ₱40,000; over ₱40,000 up to ₱1.2M; etc.), culminating in reclusion perpetua if it exceeds ₱8.8M.
Its main effect in the provided provisions is adjusting the monetary amounts used to classify penalties (fine categories) and set maximum fines or thresholds for property/damage-based penalty brackets; the imprisonment terms remain as structured in the Revised Penal Code (though fines are updated).
Failure to render accounts for two (2) months after such accounts should be rendered; penalty is prision correccional (min period) or a fine ranging from ₱40,000 to ₱1,200,000, or both.