QuestionsQuestions (Act No. 557)
Any person who, within the Philippine Islands, engages in, institutes, aids, encourages, or does any act to further a contention or fight between two or more persons, with or without weapons.
A light commonly called a ring or prize light is expressly mentioned as part of the situations covered by the Act.
Yes. Act No. 557 punishes a public or private sparring or boxing exhibition, with or without gloves, when an admission fee is charged or received.
No. It covers both public and private sparring or boxing exhibitions, provided an admission fee is charged or received.
For sparring/boxing exhibitions, the Act requires that an admission fee is charged or received (either directly or indirectly) for the exhibition to fall under the penalized acts.
Yes. The Act expressly includes exhibitions with or without gloves.
Punished acts include sending or publishing a challenge or acceptance of a challenge for the contention/exhibition/fight, and carrying or delivering such a challenge or acceptance.
Yes. The Act penalizes any person who trains or assists any person in training or preparing for the contention or exhibition.
A fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year and one day, or both, at the discretion of the court.
It applies to acts done “within the Philippine Islands.”
Not necessarily, because the Act penalizes acts “to further a contention or fight” and also penalizes sending/publishing challenges and training—conduct that may occur even before an actual fight takes place.
Passage was expedited in accordance with Section 2 of “An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws,” passed September 26, 1900.
On its passage.
Any person who engages in; institutes; aids; encourages; does any act to further; sends/publishes challenges or acceptances; carries/delivers challenges or acceptances; or trains/assists training/preparing.
It covers situations where an admission fee is charged or received either directly or indirectly.
(1) There is a public or private sparring/boxing exhibition; (2) it is held with or without gloves; (3) an admission fee is charged or received, directly or indirectly.