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Extends Anti-Graft Offense Prescription

Republic Act No. 10910 Jul 21, 2016

Republic Act No. 10910 extends the prescriptive period for violations of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act from fifteen to twenty years, enhancing accountability for corruption in public service.

anti graft prescriptive period

Legal basis and amended provision

Section 1 amends Section 11 of Republic Act No. 3019, as amended.
The prescriptive rule applies to “all offenses punishable under this Act”—meaning offenses punishable under Republic Act No. 3019.
The Act is an amendment to the anti-graft and corrupt practices prescriptive-period framework in Republic Act No. 3019.

Prescription period increased

Section 1 provides that all offenses punishable under Republic Act No. 3019 shall prescribe in twenty years.
The prescriptive period established by Section 1 is twenty (20) years.
Section 1 changes the prescriptive period from the prior fifteen (15) years benchmark referenced in the Act’s title to twenty (20) years.

Separability

Section 2 establishes that if any provision of Republic Act No. 10910 is declared invalid, the remaining provisions continue to be valid and subsisting.

Repealing and modifying clause

Section 3 provides that all laws, executive orders, or administrative orders, rules and regulations, or parts thereof, inconsistent with Republic Act No. 10910 are amended, repealed, or modified accordingly.

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