Republic of
the Philippines
Supreme
Court
Manila
A. M.
No. 00-11-01-SC
RE:
AMENDMENT TO THE RULE ON SUMMARY PROCEDURE OF CRIMINAL CASES TO INCLUDE
WITHIN ITS COVERAGE VIOLATIONS OF B.P.
BLG. 22, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOUNCING CHECKS LAW
RESOLUTION
Acting on the recommendation
of the Chairman of the Committee on Revision of the Rules of Court
submitting
for this Court’s consideration and approval the Proposed Amendment To The
Rule On Summary Procedure Of Criminal Cases To Include Within its
Coverage
Violations of B.P.
Big. 22, Otherwise Known As The Bouncing Checks Law, the Court
Resolved
to APPROVE the same.
The amendment shall
take effect on April 15, 2003 following its publication in a newspaper
of general circulation not later than March 30, 2003.
March 25,
2003. (Sgd.)
Hilario G.
Davide, Jr.
Chief Justice
(Sgd.)
Josue N.
Bellosillo
(Sgd.) Reynato S. Puno
Associate
Justice
Associate Justice
(Sgd.) Jose
C.
Vitug
(Sgd.) Vicente V. Mendoza
Associate
Justice
Associate Justice
(Sgd.)
Artemio V.
Panganiban
(Sgd.) Leornardo A. Quisumbing
Associate
Justice
Associate Justice
(Sgd.)
Antonio T.
Carpio
(Sgd.)
Ma. Alicia Austria-Martinez
Associate
Justice
Associate Justice
(Sgd.)
Renato C.
Corona
(Sgd.) Conchita Carpio-Morales
Associate
Justice
Associate Justice
(Sgd.)
Romeo J. Callejo,
Sr.
(Sgd.) Adolfo S. Azcuna
Associate
Justice
Associate Justice
AMENDMENT
TO THE RULE ON SUMMARY PROCEDURE OF CRIMINAL CASES TO INCLUDE WITHIN
ITS
COVERAGE VIOLATIONS OF B.P.
BLG. 22, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOUNCING CHECKS LAW
Section 1 of the
Revised
Rule on Summary Procedure (Resolution of the Court En Banc dated
October
15, 1991), is amended as follows:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary
“Section
1. Scope. This rule shall govern the summary procedure in Metropolitan
Trial Courts, the Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Municipal Trial
Courts,
and the Municipal Circuit Trial Courts in the following cases falling
within
their jurisdiction.
A.
Civil Cases:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary
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B.
Criminal Cases:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary
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4.
Violations
of Batas
Pambansa Bilang 22 (Bouncing Checks Law);
5. All other
criminal cases where the penalty prescribed by law for the offense
charged
is imprisonment not exceeding six months, or a fine not exceeding one
thousand
pesos (P1,000.00), or both, irrespective of other imposable penalties,
accessory or otherwise, or of the civil liability arising therefrom:
Provided,
however, that in offenses involving damage to property through criminal
negligence, this Rule shall govern where the imposable fine does not
exceed
ten thousand pesos (P10,000.00).
This Rule shall not
apply to a civil case where the plaintiff’s cause of action is pleaded
in the same complaint with another cause of action subject to the
ordinary
procedure; nor to a criminal case where the offense charged is
necessarily
related to another criminal case subject to ordinary procedure.”
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