Special Penal Laws

1. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10175 - AN ACT DEFINING CYBERCRIME, PROVIDING FOR THE PREVENTION,
INVESTIGATION, SUPPRESSION AND THE 

2. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10158 - AN ACT DECRIMINALIZING VAGRANCY, AMENDING FOR THIS
PURPOSE ARTICLE 202 OF ACT NO. 3815, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE REVISED
PENAL CODE  

3. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9995 - AN ACT DEFINING AND PENALIZING THE CRIME OF PHOTO AND
VIDEO VOYEURISM, PRESCRIBING PENALTIES THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

4. Republic Act  No. 9775 -  Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009

5. Republic Act No. 9516 - An Act Further Amending the Provisions of Presidential Decree No.
1866, As Amended, Entitled "Codifying the Laws on Illegal/Unlawful Possession, Manufacture,
Dealing in, Acquisition or Disposition of Firearms, Ammunition or Explosives Or Instruments
Used in the Manufacture of Firearms, Ammunition or Explosives, and Imposing Stiffer
Penalties for Certain Violations thereof, and for Relevant Purposes"

6. Republic Act No. 9439 [H. No. 68] - An Act Prohibiting the Detention of Patients in Hospitals
and Medical Clinics on Grounds of Nonpayment of Hospital Bills or Medlcal Expenses

7. Republic Act No. 9346 - An Act Prohibiting the Imposition of Death Penalty in the Philippines.

8. Republic Act No. 9344 - An Act Establishing a Comprehensive Juvenile Justice and Welfare
System, Creating the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council under the Department of Justice,
Appropriating Funds therefor and for other Purposes. 

9. Republic Act No. 9262 - An Act Defining Violence Against Women And Their Children,
Providing For Protective Measures For Victims, Prescribing Penalties Therefore, And For Other
Purposes.

10. Republic Act No. 9208 - An Act To Institute Policies to Eliminate Trafficking in Persons
Especially Women and Children, Establishing the Necessary Institutional Mechanisms for the
Protection and Support of Trafficked Persons, Providing Penalties for Its Violations, and for
other Purposes.

11. Republic Act No. 9194 - An Act Amending Republic Act No. 9160, Otherwise Known as the
"Anti-Money Laundering Law of 2001"

12. Republic Act No. 9165 - Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002

13. Republic Act No. 9160 - The Rules and Regulations Implementing the Anti-Money Laundering
Act of 2001 

14. Republic Act No. 8505 - Rape Victim Assistance and Protection Act of 1998

15. Republic Act No. 8368 - The Anti-Squatting Law Repeal Act of 1997

16. Republic Act No. 8353 - Anti-Rape Law

17. Republic Act No. 8294 - An Act Amending the Provisions of P. D. No. 1866, Entitled "Codifying
the Laws on Illegal/Unlawful Possession, Manufacture, Dealing In, Acquisition or Dispostion of
Firearms, Ammunition or Explosives or Instruments Used in the Manufacture of Firearms,
Ammunition or Explosives, and Imposing Stiffer Penalties for Certain Violations Thereof, and
for Relevant Purposes"

18. Republic Act No. 8177 - An Act Designating Death by Lethal Injection as the Method of
Carrying Out Capital Punishment, Amending for the Purpose Article 81 of the Revised Penal
Code, As Amended by Section 24 of Republic Act No. 7659
19. Republic Act No. 8049 - Anti-Hazing Law

20. Republic Act No. 7890  - An Act Amendig Article 286, Section Three, Chapter Two, Title Nine of
Act No. 3815, As Amended, Otherwise Known as the Revised Penal Code

21. Republic Act No. 7832 -  Anti-Electricity and Electric Transmission Lines/Materials Pilferage Act
of 1994

22. Republic Act No. 7659 - Death Penalty Law

23. Republic Act No. 7438 - An Act Defining Certain Rights of Person Arrested, Detained or Under
Custodial Investigation as well as the Duties of the Arresting, Detaining and Investigating
Officers, and Providing Penalties for Violations Thereof

24. Republic Act No. 7636  - An Act Repealing Republic Act Numbered One Thousand Seven
Hundred, As Amended, Otherwise Known as the Anti-Subversion Act.

25. Republic Act No. 7309 - An Act Creating a Board of Claims Under the Department of Justice for
Victims of Unjust Imprisonment or Detention and Victims of Violent Crimes and for Other
Purposes

26. Republic Act No. 6981 - Witness Protection, Security and Benefit Act

27. Republic Act No. 6968 - An Act Punishing the Crime of Coup d' Etat by Amending Articles 134,
135 and 136 of Chapter One, Title Three of Act Numbered Thirty-Eight Hundred and Fifteen,
Otherwise Known as the Revised Penal Code, and for Other Purposes.

28. Republic Act No. 6425 - The Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972

29. Republic Act No. 1700 - An Act to Outlaw the Communist Party of the Philippines and Similar
Associations, Penalizing Membership Therein, and for Other Purposes. (Repealed by  Republic
Act No. 7636)

30. Presidential Decree No. 2018 - Further Amending Articles 38 and 39 of the Labor Code by
Making Illegal Recruitment a Crime of Economic Sabotage and Punishable With Life
Imprisonment.

31. Presidential Decree No. 1996 - Further Amending Presidential Decree No. 1834, As Amended.
(Repealed by  Executive Order No. 187, Series of 1987)

32. Presidential Decree No. 1990 - Amending Presidential Decree No.  968, Otherwise Known as
the Probation Law of  1976.

33. Presidential Decree No. 1975 - Amending Presidential Decree No. 1835 (Repealed by  Executive
Order No. 167, Series of 1987

34. Presidential Decree No. 1974 - Amending Presidential Decree No. 1834  (Repealed
by  Executive Order No. 187, Series of 1987)

35. Presidential Decree No. 1875 - Repealing Presidential Decree No.  1737, Otherwise Known as
an Act Providing for the Preservation of Public Order and the Protection of Individual Rights
and Liberties During Periods of Emergency and Exercise of Extra-Ordinary Executive Powers.

36. Presidential Decree No. 1835 - Anti-Subversion Law of 1981 Codifying the Various Laws on
Anti-Subversion and Increasing the Penalties for Membership in Subversive
Organizations. (Repealed by  Executive Order No. 167, Series of 1987)

37. Presidential Decree No. 1834 - Increasing the Penalties for the Crime of Rebellion, Sedition,
and Related Crimes, and Amending for This Purpose Articles 135, 136, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144,
146 and 147 of th Revised Penal Code and Adding Section 142-B Thereto. (Repealed
by  Executive Order No. 187, Series of 1987
38. )Presidential Decree No. 1829 - Penalizing Obstruction of Apprehension and Prosecution of
Criminal Offenders.

39. Presidential Decree No. 1745 - Providing for the Disposition of Cases Involving Simple Illegal
Possession of Firearm, Ammunition, or Explosive, the Surrender of Such Contraband Under
Certain Guarantees and Conditions, and for Other Purposes.

40. Presidential Decree No. 1744 - Amending Article Three Hundred and Twenty of the Revised
Penal Code Provisions on Arson.

41. Presidential Decree No. 1743 - Amending Presidential Decree No.  1110-A Penalizing Any
Attempt on, or Conspiracy Against, the Life of the Chief Executive of the Republic of
the Philippines, Any Member of His Cabinet or Their Families.

42. Presidential Decree No. 1737 - An Act Providing for the Preservation of Public Order and the
Protection of Individual Rights and Liberties During Periods of Emergency and Exercise of
Extraordinary Executive Powers.

43. Presidential Decree No. 1736 - Amending Presidential Decree Numbered Eight Hundred
Eighty-Five, Otherwise Known as the Revised Anti-Subversion Law, As Amended.

44. Presidential Decree No. 1735

Imposing Additional Penalties for Rebellion, Insurrection, Sedition and Subversion Committed
Within or Outside Philippine Territory. Repealed by  Executive Order No. 187, Series of 1987)

45. Presidential Decree No. 970 - Amending Articles  138 and 142 of the Revised Penal Code and
for Other Purposes. (Repealed by  Executive Order No. 187, Series of 1987)

46. Presidential Decree No. 969 - Amending Certain Provisions of Presidential Decree No.  960
Which Amended Article 201 of the Revised Penal Code and for Other Purposes.)

47. Presidential Decree No. 968 - The Probation Law of 1976 Establishing a Probation System,
Appropriating Funds Therefor and for Other Purposes.

48. Presidential Decree No. 942 - Amending the Provisions of the Revised Penal Code on Crimes
Against Public Order. (Repealed by  Executive Order No. 187, Series of 1987)

49. )Presidential Decree No. 885 - Revised Anti-Subversion Law Outlawing Subversive

Organizations, Penalizing Membership Therein and for Other Purposes.

50. Presidential Decree No. 38 - Amending Articles  135, 136, 137, 138, 140, 142, 177, 178 and 179
of the Revised Penal Code. (Repealed by  Executive Order No. 187, Series of 1987))

51. Batas Pambansa Bilang 873 - An Act Amending Article 152 of the Revised Penal Code by
Considering Lawyers as Persons in Authority When in the Performance of Their Duties or on
the Occasion Thereof.

52. Batas Pambansa Bilang 871 - An Act Amending Articles Two Hundred Ten and Two Hundred
Eleven of Act Numbered Thirty-Eight and Fifteen, Otherwise Known as the Revised Penal
Code, As Amended, to Increase the Penalty for the Offense of Bribery.

53. Batas Pambansa Bilang 186 - An Act Increasing the Penalty for White Slave Trade, Amending
for the Purpose Article 341 of the Revised Penal Code.

54. Batas Pambansa Bilang 179 - An Act Further Amending Certain Sections of Republic Act
Numbered Sixty-Four Hundred and Twenty-Five, Otherwise Known as the Dangerous Drugs
Act of 1972, Appropriating Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes.

55. Batas Pambansa Bilang 92 - An Act Modifying the Definition of the Crime of Corruption of
Minors and Increasing the Penalty Therefor, Amending for the Purpose Article Three Hundred
Forty of the Revised Penal Code.
56. Batas Pambansa Bilang 85 - An Act Authorizing the Release of Any Offender or Accused Who
Has Undergone Preventive Imprisonment Equal to or More Than the Possible Maximum
Imprisonment to Which He May be Sentenced by Amending the Revised Penal Code.

57. Batas Pambansa Bilang 76 - An Act Amending Presidential Decree Numbered Nine Hundred
Sixty-Eight, as Amended, Otherwise Known as the Probation Law of Nineteen Hundred and
Seventy-Six, So as to Expand Its Coverage.

58. Batas Pambansa Bilang 71 - An Act Further Amending Article 310 of the Revised Penal Code.

59. Batas Pambansa Bilang 33 - An Act Defining and Penalizing Certain Prohibited Acts Inimical to
the Public Interest and National Security Involving Petroleum and/or Petroleum Products,
Prescribing Penalties Therefor and for Other Purposes.

60. Batas Pambansa Bilang 31 - An Act Amending Presidential Decree Numbered Eight Hundred
Eighty-Five, Otherwise Known as the Revised Anti-Subversion Law.

61. Batas Pambansa Bilang 22 - Bouncing Check Law

62. Batas Pambansa Bilang 6 - An Act Reducing the Penalty for Illegal Possession of Bladed,
Pointed or Blunt Weapons, and for Other Purposes, Amending for the Purpose Presidential
Decree Numbered Nine.

63. Commonwealth Act No. 578 - An Act to Amend Article One Hundred Fifty-Two of the Revised
Penal Code, so as to Include Teachers, Professors, and Persons Charged With the Supervision
of Public or Duly Recognized Private Schools, Colleges, and Universities, Within the Term
"Persons in Authority" .

64. Act No. 4103 - The Indeterminate Sentence Law An Act to Provide for an Indeterminate
Sentence and Parole for All Persons Convicted of Certain Crimes by the Courts of the
Philippine Islands; to Create a Board of Indeterminate Sentence and to Provide Funds
Therefor; And for Other Purposes.