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Legal Penalties for Document Falsification

The document discusses penalties under Philippine law for falsifying documents. It states that public officials or ecclesiastic ministers who falsify documents can face a penalty of 1-6 years imprisonment and a fine of up to 5000 pesos. Private individuals who falsify public documents or commercial documents, or use falsified documents to damage others, can face 4 months and 1 day to 6 years imprisonment and a fine of up to 5000 pesos. Crimes punishable by correctional penalties like these will prescribe after 10 years, except for arresto mayor which prescribes after 5 years. The period of prescription begins when the crime is discovered and can be interrupted by court proceedings.

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Legal Penalties for Document Falsification

The document discusses penalties under Philippine law for falsifying documents. It states that public officials or ecclesiastic ministers who falsify documents can face a penalty of 1-6 years imprisonment and a fine of up to 5000 pesos. Private individuals who falsify public documents or commercial documents, or use falsified documents to damage others, can face 4 months and 1 day to 6 years imprisonment and a fine of up to 5000 pesos. Crimes punishable by correctional penalties like these will prescribe after 10 years, except for arresto mayor which prescribes after 5 years. The period of prescription begins when the crime is discovered and can be interrupted by court proceedings.

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Article 171.

 Falsification by public officer, employee or notary or


ecclesiastic minister. - The penalty of prision mayor and a fine not to
exceed P5,000 pesos shall be imposed upon any public officer,
employee, or notary who, taking advantage of his official position,
shall falsify a document by committing any of the following acts:

1. Counterfeiting or imitating any handwriting, signature or


rubric;

2. Causing it to appear that persons have participated


in any act or proceeding when they did not in fact so
participate;

3. Attributing to persons who have participated in an


act or proceeding statements other than those in fact
made by them;

4. Making untruthful statements in a narration of facts;

5. Altering true dates;

6. Making any alteration or intercalation in a genuine document


which changes its meaning;

7. Issuing in an authenticated form a document purporting to be


a copy of an original document when no such original exists, or
including in such a copy a statement contrary to, or different
from, that of the genuine original; or

8. Intercalating any instrument or note relative to the issuance


thereof in a protocol, registry, or official book.

The same penalty shall be imposed upon any ecclesiastical minister


who shall commit any of the offenses enumerated in the preceding
paragraphs of this article, with respect to any record or document of
such character that its falsification may affect the civil status of
persons.

Article 172. Falsification by private individual and use of falsified


documents. - The penalty of prision correccional in its medium and
maximum periods and a fine of not more than P5,000 pesos shall be
imposed upon:

1. Any private individual who shall commit any of the


falsifications enumerated in the next preceding article in any
public or official document or letter of exchange or any other
kind of commercial document; and

2. Any person who, to the damage of a third party, or with the


intent to cause such damage, shall in any private document
commit any of the acts of falsification enumerated in the next
preceding article.
Article 25. Penalties which may be imposed. - The penalties which
may be imposed according to this Code, and their different classes,
are those included in the following:

Scale

Correctional penalties:

Prision correccional, 
Arresto mayor, 
Suspension, 
Destierro.

Article 90. Prescription of crime. –

xxx

Those punishable by a correctional penalty shall


prescribe in ten years; with the exception of those punishable
by arresto mayor, which shall prescribe in five years.

Article 91. Computation of prescription of offenses. - The


period of prescription shall commence to run from the day
on which the crime is discovered by the offended party, the
authorities, or their agents, and shall be interrupted by the filing of the
complaint or information, and shall commence to run again when
such proceedings terminate without the accused being convicted or
acquitted, or are unjustifiably stopped for any reason not imputable to
him.

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