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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4202
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4202 - AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE OF THE REVISED PENAL CODE

Section 1. Article One Hundred Sixty-three of the Revised Penal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Art. 163. Making and importing and uttering false coins. – Any person who makes, imports, or utters false coins, in connivance with counterfeiters or importers, shall suffer:

1. Prision Mayor in its minimum and medium periods and a fine not to exceed 10,000 pesos, if the counterfeited coin be silver coin of the Philippines or coin of the Central Bank of the Philippines of ten-centavo denomination or above.

2. Prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods and a fine not to exceed 2,000 pesos if the counterfeited coins be any of the minor coinage of the Philippines or of the Central Bank of the Philippines below ten-centavo denomination.

3. Prision correccional in its minimum period and a fine not to exceed 1,000 pesos, if the counterfeited coin be currency of a foreign country."

Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 19, 1965

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