Penalties for Kidnapping and Serious Illegal Detention (Article 267)
- Penalties range from reclusion temporal (maximum period) to death.
- Applies if kidnapping or detention lasts over five days, simulates public authority, involves serious physical injuries or threats to kill, or if the victim is a minor, female, or public officer.
- Reclusion perpetua to death imposed if kidnapping/detention is for ransom, regardless of other circumstances.
Slight Illegal Detention Penalties (Article 268)
- Imposes reclusion temporal for illegal detention without aggravating circumstances.
- The penalty applies also to those who provide the place for the crime.
- Reduced penalty (prision mayor minimum and medium terms plus fine) if victim released voluntarily within three days before criminal proceedings.
Failure to Return Minor under Custody (Article 270)
- Reclusion perpetua penalizes deliberate failure to restore a minor to parents or guardians by one entrusted with custody.
Inducing a Minor to Abandon Home (Article 271)
- Prision correctional and fine up to seven hundred pesos for inducing a minor to abandon home.
- Lesser penalty (arresto mayor or smaller fine) if offender is the minor's parent.
Penalty Modifications for Robbery Cases (Article 294)
- Increased penalties (medium reclusion temporal to reclusion perpetua) when robbery is accompanied by rape, mutilation, or severe physical injuries.
- Penalties from prision mayor max to medium reclusion temporal if excessive violence beyond necessity is used or serious injuries inflicted.
- Lower penalties (prision correccional max to prision mayor medium) in other robbery cases.
Robbery in Inhabited Houses or Religious Buildings (Article 299)
- Armed robbery in these places punishable by reclusion temporal if property value exceeds 250 pesos.
- Enhanced penalties apply if entry is forced through openings, breaking, false keys, or impersonation of public authority.
- Also if robbery involves breaking locked furniture or removing items to break open elsewhere.
Effectivity Clause
- The amendments take effect upon approval of the Act on September 25, 1946.