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Revised Penal Code Amendment

This executive order amends Article 125 of the Revised Penal Code regarding the delay in delivering detained persons to judicial authorities. It increases the allowable time periods that public officers have to deliver detained persons based on the severity of the alleged crime: 12 hours for light crimes, 18 hours for correctional crimes, and 36 hours for afflictive or capital crimes. The order also states that detained persons must be informed of the cause of their detention and allowed to communicate with an attorney upon request.

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Revised Penal Code Amendment

This executive order amends Article 125 of the Revised Penal Code regarding the delay in delivering detained persons to judicial authorities. It increases the allowable time periods that public officers have to deliver detained persons based on the severity of the alleged crime: 12 hours for light crimes, 18 hours for correctional crimes, and 36 hours for afflictive or capital crimes. The order also states that detained persons must be informed of the cause of their detention and allowed to communicate with an attorney upon request.

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1/15/2016

E.O.No.272

TodayisFriday,January15,2016

EXECUTIVEORDERNO.272July25,1987
FURTHERAMENDINGARTICLE125OFTHEREVISEDPENALCODE,ASAMENDED
WHEREAS, in the interest of public safety and order, it is imperative that a reasonable and sufficient period be
givenwithinwhichtoconductadequateandthoroughinvestigationofpersonsdetainedforsomelegalgrounds.
NOW,THEREFORE,I,CORAZONC.AQUINO,PresidentofthePhilippines,doherebyorder:
Sec.1.ArticleonehundredtwentyfiveofActNumberedThreeThousandEightHundredFifteen(ActNo.3815)
otherwiseknownastheRevisedPenalCode,asamended,isherebyfurtheramendedtoreadasfollows:
"Art.125.Delayinthedeliveryofdetainedpersonstotheproperjudicialauthorities.Thepenaltiesprovided
in the next preceding article shall be imposed upon the public officer or employee who shall detain any
person for some legal ground and shall fail to deliver such person to the proper judicial authorities within
the period of twelve (12) hours, for crimes or offenses punishable by light penalties, or their equivalent
eighteen (18) hours, for crimes or offenses punishable by correctional penalties, or their equivalent, and
thirtysix(36)hours,forcrimesoroffensespunishablebyafflictiveorcapitalpenalties,ortheirequivalent.
Ineverycase,thepersondetainedshallbeinformedofthecausedofhisdetentionandshallbeallowed,
uponhisrequest,tocommunicateandconferatanytimewithhisattorneyorcounsel."
Sec.2.All laws, orders, issuances, rules and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with this Executive Order
areherebyrepealedormodifiedaccordingly.
la w p h i1 .n e t

Sec.3.ThisExecutiveOrdershalltakeeffectthirty(30)daysfollowingitspublicationintheOfficialGazette.
DONEintheCityofManila,this25thdayofJuly,intheyearofOurLord,nineteenhundredandeightyseven.
TheLawphilProjectArellanoLawFoundation

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