QuestionsQuestions (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1876)
Presidential Decree No. 1876 is titled “Repealing Presidential Decree No. 1498, otherwise known as the National Security Code.” Its main purpose is to repeal PD No. 1498 (the National Security Code).
PD No. 1876 repeals Presidential Decree No. 1498, otherwise known as the National Security Code.
It takes effect “effective immediately,” as stated in the decree.
The decree states that with the issuance of Proclamation No. 2045, there is a need to repeal the National Security Code.
Ferdinand E. Marcos is the President who signed it, indicated as “President of the Philippines.”
It was done in the City of Manila, Philippines, on July 21, 1983.
It means the repeal does not invalidate or undo existing legal proceedings, court cases, or transactions that had already arisen under laws embodied in the repealed Code.
No. The decree expressly provides that the repeal is “without prejudice” to proceedings, cases, or transactions already arisen, which implies that matters already in motion are not nullified by the repeal.
The text suggests not solely because of the repeal, since it is “without prejudice to any proceedings, cases in Court,” meaning such cases may continue subject to applicable legal rules.
It preserves those transactions; the repeal does not disturb or automatically void them if they already arose from the former Code.
While PD No. 1876 repeals PD No. 1498, it states that the repeal is without prejudice to proceedings, cases, or transactions that already arose from those laws.
It provides the stated policy or legal context for why the National Security Code needed to be repealed—namely, because Proclamation No. 2045 was issued, creating the need for repeal.
It implies that prior rights, obligations, proceedings, and transactions that already existed or arose under the repealed Code are not automatically wiped out by the repeal.
Juan C. Tuvera, identified as Presidential Executive Assistant, certified/attested the decree “By the President.”