ADMINISTRATIVE
CIRCULAR NO. 9-92
TO:
ALL
JUDGES OF THE REGIONAL TRIAL COURTS, SHARI’AH DISTRICT COURTS,
METROPOLITAN
TRIAL COURTS, MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURTS IN CITIES, MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURTS,
MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT TRIAL COURTS AND SHARI’AH CIRCUIT TRIAL COURTS
SUBJECT:
R. A. NO. 7636 REPEALING R. A. NO. 1700, AS AMENDED [ANTI-SUBVERSION
ACT].
R. A. No.
1700, as
amended, otherwise known as the "Anti-Subversion Act", is now
repealed
by R. A. No. 7636, which took effect on October 11, 1992.
R. A. No.
7636 provides
as follows:
"AN ACT
REPEALING
REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE
KNOWN AS THE ATI-SUBVERSION ACT.
"Be it enacted
by the
Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress
assembled:
"SECTION
1. Republic
Act Numbered One Thousand Seven Hundred (R.A. No. 1700), otherwise
known
as the Anti-Subversion Act, as revived by Executive Order Numbered One
Hundred Sixty Seven [E. O. No. 167] and subsequently amended by
Executive
Order Numbered Two Hundred Seventy-Six [E. O. 176] is hereby repealed.
"SECTION 2.
This Act
does not in any manner repeal, amend or modify the provisions of the
Revised
Penal Code.
"SECTION 3.
Presidential
Decrees Nos. 885, 1738, 1835 and 1975 remain repealed, and all other
laws,
presidential decrees, letters of instruction, and other issuances,
orders,
rules and regulations inconsistent with this Act are hereby likewise
repealed.
"SECTION 4.
This act
shall take effect fifteen [15] days after its publication in two [2]
national
newspapers of general circulation.
"Approved:
[Sgd.] NEPTALI
A.
GONZALES
President of
the
Senate
[Sgd.] JOSE C.
DE
VENECIA, JR.
Speaker of the
House
of Representatives
This bill,
which
is a consolidation of Senate Bill No. 508 and Bill No. 818, was finally
passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on September 4,
1992.
[Sgd.]
ANACLETO
D. BADOY, JR.
Secretary of
the
Senate
[Sgd.] CAMILO
L.
SABIO
Secretary
General
House of
Representatives
Approved:
September
22, 1992 [Sgd.] FIDEL
V. RAMOS
President of
the
Philippines"
All trial
Court judges
are, therefore, hereby directed to give preferential attention and to
act
with dispatch on all cases/motions relative to the release of persons
detained
or serving for violation of R. A. No. 1700.
Strict
compliance
is hereby enjoined.
October 29,
1992.
[Sgd.]
HUGO
E. GUTIERREZ, JR.
Acting
Chief Justice
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