Full Title
AN ACT AMENDING ARTICLE THREE HUNDRED AND TEN OF ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN, OTERWISE KNOWN AS THE REVISED PENAL CODE, AS AMENDED.
Congress
House Bill No.
H. No. 37
Legislative History
Date of Approval
June 14, 1947
Other Details
Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance Type
Bill Note
Subjects
Amendment Note
ACT 3815, art. 310
Related to Note
CA 417
Link From Other Sources
URL (Supreme Court)
Official Gazette
Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 43 no. 7 page 2555 (7/00/1947)
Full Text of Issuance
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H. No. 37 / 43 OG No. 255 (July, 1947)
[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 120, June 14, 1947 ]
AN ACT AMENDING ARTICLE THREE HUNDRED AND TEN OF ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE REVISED PENAL CODE, AS AMENDED.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:SECTION 1. Article three hundred and ten of Act Numbered Thirty-eight hundred and fifteen, otherwise known as the Revised Penal Code, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred and seventeen, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"ART. 310. Qualified theft.—The crime of theft shall be punished by the penalties next higher by two degrees than those respectively specified in the next preceding article, if committed by a domestic servant, or with grave abuse of confidence, or if the property stolen is motor vehicle, mail matter or large cattle or consists of coconuts taken from the premises of a plantation, or fish taken from a fishpond or fishery."
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.Approved, June 14, 1947.
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