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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1811
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1811
- FURTHER AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 9, AS AMENDED BY
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1728
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WHEREAS,
the maintenance of peace and order and the stability of the government
depends greatly on the security of the lives of our national leaders;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the use of illegal firearms, explosives and other deadly
weapons as means for the commission and/or furtherance of subversion,
rebellion, insurrection, lawless violence and widespread public
disorder greatly imperils the existence and survival of the State;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in view of the recent bombings and other acts of terrorism and
lawlessness committed or being carried out by radicals and criminal
elements, resulting in death and serious injuries to innocent
civilians, damage to property, disruption of normal activities, and
fear or panic among the populace, there is an urgent necessity to amend
Presidential Decree No. 9, to provide an effective deterrent to the use
of firearms and deadly weapons in the commission of certain offenses by
providing capital punishment therefor.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
order and decree as follows: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 1. Presidential Decree No. 9 is hereby
further amended in order to add a new paragraph to read as follows:cralaw:red
"5. The mandatory penalty of death shall be imposed
upon any person who uses an unlicensed firearm or firearms used or
carried in violation of General Orders Nos. 6 and 7, or any deadly
weapon as defined in the preceding paragraphs 2 and 3, in committing
terroristic activities in furtherance of subversion, rebellion or
insurrection, or sedition, or in committing an attempt on the life of
the President/Prime Minister, any member of his Cabinet, any member of
the Interim Batasang Pambansa, any officer of the Armed Forces of the
Philippines with at least the rank of Brigadier General or its
equivalent, a member of the Supreme Court or of any of the
Constitutional Commissions, or any immediate member of the family of
the said officials, or who uses such firearm or deadly weapon against
the person of any of the government officials enumerated herein, or any
immediate member of the family of said official during the commission
of, or for the purpose of committing subversion, rebellion or
insurrection, or sedition. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 2. This decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 16th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-one.
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