Adjusting the Amount or Value of the Property and Damage on which Penalty is based and Fines under Revised Penal Code

Case Overview and Summary

Summary of Republic Act No. 10951

Adjustments to Penalties and Fines in the Revised Penal Code
- Increases the amount or value thresholds for determining penalties and fines for various crimes (Sections 1-2)

Crimes Against the Fundamental Laws of the State
- Increases penalties and fines for treason, conspiracy to commit treason, coup d'etat, rebellion, sedition, inciting sedition, and related crimes (Sections 3-12)
- Increases fines for unlawful associations, direct assaults, indirect assaults, disobedience to summons, resistance to authorities, and tumults (Sections 13-19)

Crimes Relative to the Opium Trade and Maintenance of Illicit Distillery
- No changes

Crimes Relative to the Currency
- Increases fines for counterfeiting coins, mutilating coins, forging treasury notes, and related crimes (Sections 20-27)

Crimes Relative to the Faith and Cult
- No changes

Crimes Relative to the Public Interest
- Increases fines for falsification of documents by public officers, private individuals, and related crimes (Sections 28-34)
- Increases fines for frauds against public treasury, prohibited transactions, and possession of prohibited interests (Sections 35-40)
- Increases penalties and fines for malversation of public funds, failure to render accounts, and related crimes (Sections 41-44)
- Increases fines for removal or destruction of documents, breaking seals, opening closed documents, revealing secrets, and related crimes (Sections 45-50)
- Increases fines for disobedience, refusal of assistance, refusal to discharge elective office, and related crimes (Sections 51-54)
- Increases penalties and fines for maltreatment of prisoners, anticipation of duties, prolonging performance, usurpation of powers, and related crimes (Sections 55-59)

Crimes Relative to the Human Life
- Increases fines for abortion by physicians or midwives (Section 60)

Crimes Relative to Physical Injuries
- Increases fines for less serious physical injuries, slight physical injuries, and maltreatment (Sections 61-62)

Crimes Against Personal Liberty and Security
- Increases fines for slight illegal detention, unlawful arrest, inducing a minor to abandon home, abandoning a minor, exploitation of minors, and related crimes (Sections 63-68)

Crimes Against Honor
- Increases fines for grave threats, light threats, grave coercions, light coercions, and related crimes (Sections 69-75)

Crimes Against Persons
- Increases fines for discovering secrets through seizure of correspondence, revealing secrets with abuse of office, and revelation of industrial secrets (Sections 76-78)

Crimes Against Property
- Increases penalties and fines for robbery, theft, swindling, other deceits, and related crimes (Sections 79-87)
- Increases fines for malicious mischief, destroying statues or monuments, and related crimes (Sections 88-91)

Crimes Against Civil Status
- Increases fines for simulation of births, substitution of children, and concealment of legitimate children (Section 92)

Crimes Against Honor
- Increases fines for libel, threatening to publish libel, prohibited publication of proceedings, slander, slander by deed, and related crimes (Sections 93-96)

Quasi Crimes
- Increases fines for imprudence and negligence resulting in damage to property or wrong (Section 97)

Separability Clause (Section 98)
Repealing Clause (Section 99)
Retroactive Effect (Section 100)
Transitory Provision on Pending Cases (Section 101)
Effectivity Clause (Section 102)