COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 202 - AN ACT AMENDING ARTICLES ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR OF ACT NUMBERED THREE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN, KNOWN AS THE REVISED PENAL CODE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS |
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1. Article one hundred and thirty-nine of Act Numbered Three thousand
eight hundred and fifteen, known as the revised Penal Code, is hereby
amended to read as follows: "ARTICLE 139. Sedition. – How
committed. – The crime of sedition is committed by persons who rise
publicly and tumultuously in order to attain by force, intimidation, or
by other means outside of legal methods, any of the following objects: "1. To prevent
the promulgation or execution of any law or the holding of any popular
election; "2. To prevent the National Government, or any provincial or municipal government, or any public officer thereof from freely exercising its or his functions, or prevent the execution of any administrative order; "3. To inflict any act of hate or revenge upon the person or property of any public officer or employee; "4. To commit, for any political or social end, any act of hate or revenge against private persons or any social class; and "5. To despoil, for any political or social end, any person, municipality or province, or the National Government or the Government of the United States, of all its property or any part thereof." Section2. Article one hundred and forty-two of Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred and fifteen, known as the Revised Penal Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: "ARTICLE 142. Inciting to
sedition. – The penalty of prision correccional in its maximum period
and a fine of not exceeding 2,000 pesos shall be imposed upon any
person who, without taking any direct part in the crime of sedition,
should incite others to the accomplishment of any of the acts which
constitute sedition, by means of speeches, proclamations, writings,
emblems, cartoons, banners, or other representations tending to the
same end, or upon any person or persons who shall utter seditious words
or speeches, write, publish, or circulate scurrilous libels against the
Government of the United States or the Government of the Commonwealth
of the Philippines, or any of the duly constituted authorities thereof,
or which tend to disturb or obstruct any lawful officer in executing
the functions of his office, or which tend to instigate others to cabal
or meet together for unlawful purposes, or which suggest or incite
rebellious conspiracies or riots, or which lead or tend to stir up the
people of the community, the safety and order of the Government, or who
shall knowingly conceal such evil practices." Section3. Article one hundred and fifty-four of Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred and fifteen, known as the Revised Penal Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: "ARTICLE 154.Unlawful use of means of publication and unlawful utterances. – The
penalty of arresto mayor and a fine ranging from 200 to 1,000 pesos
shall be imposed upon; "1. Any person
who by means of printing. lithography, or any other means of
publication shall publish or cause to be published as news any false
news which may endanger the public order, or cause damage to the
interest or credit of the State; "2. Any person who by the same means, or by words, utterances or speeches, shall encourage disobedience to the law or to the constituted authorities or praise, justify, or extol any act punished by law; "3. Any person who shall maliciously publish or cause to be published any official resolution or document without proper authority, or before they have been published officially; or "4. Any person who shall print, publish, or distribute or cause to be printed, published or distributed books, pamphlets, periodicals, or leaflets which do not bear the real printer's name, or which are classified as anonymous." Section4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved: November 18, 1936. |