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Existing National
Laws
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It is to establish standards, maintaining

o rd e r, r e so l v i ng di sp ut e s, a nd pr ot e c t i ng
liberties and rights.

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Responsible
Parenthood
Reproductive Health Act of 2012(RA10354)

• Our country is considered to be the “39 th most densely

populated country, with a density of over 335 per square
kilometer” ( 2010 est. by CIA World Facebook)

• In the 2015 census, our country’s population is at 100, 981,

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437, the growth rate of which is at 1.72% (2010 – 2015)

• Based on the experience of other Asian countries, it has

been recognized that a government – funded family
planning program is crucial in reducing incident of poverty
in a country.

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Parenthood
It is considered as a natural outcome of
marriage. It is about raising children and
supporting their needs financially, morally,
educationally, teaching them values, and giving
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them love and care.

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Different types of children with
their parents:
• Children that can benefit from
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having married parents who respect
each other.
• There are children who do not live
with their parents ( separation or
death)
• A child with a parent that has good
parenting skills.
• A child living with a loving or
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Different reasons for a parent to
have a child:
• They want a child that looks like them.
• They want children to carry their family name,
or inherit their family business, money, or
property.
• Some compensate on having a child to save
their marriage, make up for an unhappy
childhood, or feel more secure as a woman or
man.
• Those who feel a need to conform to their
peers or what others expect of them, to please
their parents or guardians, to do what their
friends are doing, or to avoid from being
criticized for being childless.
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The 3 R’s before becoming parents:

Couples should consider this before deciding to be parents.

REASON RESOURCES RESPONSIBILITIE

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.Why do you want a child? .Why is needed to raise a child? What are the
responsibilities of a
parent?

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Responsibilities
of a parent
• Set a side a quantity of time as well as a quality
time to spend with children.
• Learn about age – appropriate development to have
realistic expectations.
• Teach rules to ensure health and safety of children.
• Give love and affection.
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• Teach with a positive attitude.

• Teach moral and ethical values.
• Teach self – discipline and self control with
effective discipline.
• Provide economic security
• Recognize that children have rights and respect
those rights.
• Raise children in a stable, secure family that is free
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Family Planning
It is a program that provides information
and a means for couples and individuals to
have the desired number of children that
they can responsibly raise.

• It is deciding the number of children a married

couple would want.

• Couples decide when to have the next baby and use

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responsible means to achieve their desired number

of children.

• It also provides access to safe, effective. Affordable,

non – abortifacient, modern, natural, and artificial
methods of pregnancy planning.

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Importance of
Family Planning
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To Mothers:
• Taking a two – to three – year interval for
delivery helps a mother to recover and regain
health.
• Family planning also gives mothers time and
opportunity to give sufficient attention to
themselves, their families, and their
communities.
• It provides them enough time for treatment of
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chronic illnesses and may also prevent young

and old mothers from unexpected pregnancy.

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To Children:
• It helps the mother to raise healthy children.
• Children get quality time and attention from
their parents.
• They have more opportunities to enjoy and
feel secured knowing that their needs such as
food, clothing, and good education are being
provided.
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To Fathers:
• It lightens the burden and responsibility of the
father in supporting his family, as there are
only a few members to support.
• It gives his family a better home, education,
and good future, thus, keeping them happy
and content.
• It allows him to have time for himself, to his
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wife and children.

• It also affords him the feeling of fulfillment.
Having extra resource and enough time, he
can actively participate in the community.
• It gives time for treatment to those who have
chronic illnesses.

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To Family:
• They have more opportunities to enjoy each
other’s company.
• It enables them to have savings that can be
used for emergencies and to improve their
living standards.
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To the Community:
• Improves the economic and social status of
the community.
• There will be better job opportunities and
extra resources like skills, money, time, and
materials to share in the community.
• It will be a healthful place to live in with more
land, open spaces between houses,
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playground, sanitation, and less pollution.

• More time will be available to socialize
among community members and participate in
school, community, and socio – civic
activities.

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To the Country:
• The use of resources like land, food, and fuel,
can be reduced and sanitation control would
be more effective.
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Reproductive Health
A state of complete physical, mental, and social
well – being and not merely the absence of disease relating to
the reproductive system and to its functions and processes.
This implies that women and men attain equal relationships in
matters related to sexual relations and reproduction.
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Birth Control
As a part of family planning, husband and wide
will have to decide on the prevention of a birth of a child. T o
prevent pregnancy, couples would have to decide on a
particular procedure, device, or medication that would prevent
the chances of pregnancy.
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Contraceptives Methods
When selecting a contraceptive, couples should
consult health professionals. These are chosen on the bases of
safe, worthiness, reliability, reversibility, affordability,
convenience in using, and negative interference with sexual
expressions.
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Tobacco Regulation
Act of 2003
A law on regulating smoking in public
places, tobacco advertising, promotion,
and sponsorship, and sales restrictions)

• It is to promote a healthy environment.

• Informs the public of the health risks associated with

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cigarette smoking and tobacco.

• It protects the youth from being initiated to cigarette

smoking and tobacco use by prohibiting the sale of the
products to minors.

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Places where
smoking is prohibited
• Schools, hostels, and recreational facilities

• Elevators and stairwells; places considered fire hazards

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• Hospitals, clinics, health centers, nursing homes,

dispensaries, and laboratories

• Airports, ship terminals, train and bust stations, restaurants,

and conference halls

• Shopping malls, movie houses, hotels, restaurants, and food

preparation areas.

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The new law mandates that

starting January 1 in 2004, all
cigarettes sold in the Philippines’
s h o u l d b e a r, i n e i t h e r E n g l i s h o r
Filipino, on rotating basis or
s e p a r a t e l y a n d s i m u l t a n e o u s l y, t h e
following government warnings:

• Cigarette is Dangerous to Your Health

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• Cigarettes are Addictive

• Tobacco Smoke Can Harm Your Children

• Smoking Kills

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Other Important
matters:
• Designated smoking areas in public must be in open
spaces.

• A visible smoking Area sign

• Minimum age requirements for the sale, purchase, and use

of tobacco by a minor.
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• Selling tobacco is also prohibited within 100 meters away

from a school, public playground.

• All packages of Tobacco must contain “purchase by minors

is unlawful” and “ Not for sale to Minors”

• Violators of the law will be punished with a fine ranging

from 5oo pesos to 400, 000 and imprisonment from 30 days
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Comprehensive
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Dangerous Drugs Act

of 2002
A policy imposed by the government to
d e a l w i t h t h e s t a t e ’s p r o b l e m w i t h
illegal drugs, particularly how it affects
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What does this law cover?

The policy covers drug – related situations such as
trafficking, possession, using, and even the rehabilitation of
previous drug users.

This policy has to be taken seriously because it

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does not allow plea bargaining.

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Some details of these drug related
situations:
1. Introducing a dangerous drug into a
person’s body by injection, inhalation, or
any other method. The exception is if it is
for medication purposes initiated by a
Doctor.
2. Passing a dangerous drug to another. It may
be done personally or using another person
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or means.
3. Giving away or selling dangerous drugs.
4. Illegal trafficking, delivery, administration,
dispensation, manufacture, sale, trading,
transportation, distribution, importation,
export and possession of any dangerous
drug, and controlled precursor and essential
chemical.
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5. Trading – Transactions involving the illegal
trafficking of dangerous drugs using electronic
devices. This includes the e – mails, text
messages, cellular phones, landlines, 2 – way
radios, the Internet, instant messages, and chat
rooms, or acting as brokers in any ways. It may
be for money usually by a group joining together
who functions in any of this:
a. Financer – A person who pays for any illegal
activities.
b. Protector/Coddler – Using power or
influence to shield illegal activities.
6. Pusher – any person who sells, trades,
administers illegal activities.
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The penalty for any of the given situations

rangers from 6 months for possession of drug
paraphernalia to life sentence or even death sentence for
maintaining a drug den.

This law includes the ff:

1. Fast destruction of dangerous drugs that are seized.

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2. Punishment for policemen and law enforcers who

delay drug cases.

3. Mandatory drug test for drivers

4. Random drug tests for students and government and

private workers

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school levels.
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Consumer Act of the

Philippines RA 7394
A national policy which is aimed to protect
the interest of the consumers and buyers of
p r o d u c t s a n d s e r v i c e s . To s e t a n d maintain

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Objectives of this law:

• Protection of consumers against hazards to health
and safety;

• Protection of consumers against deceptive and unfair

sales, acts and practices
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• Giving of information and education so consumers

can make sound choices and decisions;

• Provision of adequate rights and means of redress;

and

• Allowing consumers to be represented in the making

of social and economic policies.
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Government Agencies

Department of Trade and Industry Department of Agriculture (DA)

(DTI)
• Consumer product quality and safety Agricultural Products:
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• Deceptive, unfair, and unconscionable

a. Quality and safety
sales, acts, and practices
• Weights and measures b. Labeling and packaging
• Consumer products and service
warrantless
• Price tag
• Labeling for products and services
• Service and repair shops
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Department of Education (DepEd) Department of Health (DOH)

Consumer education and information. Foods, drugs, cosmetics, devices, and
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hazardous substances
a. Quality and safety
b. Labeling and packaging
c. Advertising and sales promotion
d. Price tag

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Securities and Exchange

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Commission ( SEC)
Consumer credit transactions extended Credit facilities extended to consumers by
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by banks and other financial financing companies.

intermediaries

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National Environmental
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Awareness and Education

Act of 2008 RA 9512
Knowledge on how to conserve, protect,
and rehabilitate our forests, mountains,
seas, and rivers.

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Environmental
Education
• Environmental concepts and principles

• Environmental Laws

• The state of international and local environment

• Local environmental best practices

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• The threats of environmental degradation and its impact

on human well being

• The responsibility of the citizenry to the environment

• The value of conservation, protection, and rehabilitation

of natural resources

• The environment in the context of sustainable

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Who shall implement the said

Act?
• Department of Education (DepEd)

• The Commission on Higher Education (CHED)

• The Technical Education and Skills Development

Authority (TESDA)
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• The Department of Social Welfare and Development

(DSWD), in coordination with the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)

• The Department of Science and Technology (DOST)

and other relevant agencies.

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Traditional and Alternative

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Medicine Act of 1997 (RA

8423)
A health care law which aims to promote
and provide affordable and effective
traditional and alternative medicinal
methods to Filipinos.

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Traditional and Alternative

Health Care
It refers to knowledge, skills, and
practices on health care that are not
included in the regular practice of many
doctors, but are also used to prevent and
treat physical illnesses.

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Objectives of this law:

• To encourage scientific research on traditional and
alternative health care systems that have direct impact
on public health care

• To promote and advocate the use of traditional,

alternative, preventive, and curative health care

• Develop and coordinate skills training courses for

various forms of traditional & alternative health care
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• To formulate policies for the protection of indigenous

and natural health resources and technology from
unwarranted exploitation.

• To formulate policies to strengthen the role of

traditional and alternative health care delivery systems

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international and national conventions.
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Philippine AIDS Prevention

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and Control Act of 1998 (RA

8504)
This law was created to promote public
awareness about issues related to
HIV/AIDS.

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Acquired Immune Deficiency

Syndrome (AIDS)
A condition characterized by a combination
of signs and symptoms, caused by HIV
contracted from another person. It weakens
t h e b o d y ’s i m m u n e s y s t e m .

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Provisions of this Law:

• The Department of Education and other government

agencies should work hand in hand so that
information on AIDS are included in the classroom.
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• All teachers and instructors of said HIV/AIDS

courses should undergo a seminar training on
HIV/AIDS prevention and control.

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National Blood Services Act

of 1994 (RA 7719)
It is an act promoting voluntary blood
donation, providing for an adequate
supply of safe blood, regulating blood
banks, and providing penalties for
violations thereof.
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Objectives:
• Safe and adequate blood supply: depending on
the quality of the blood source

• Effective recruitment from healthy low – risk

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population

• Proper donor selection and counseling

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The importance of this law:

1. It promotes and encourages voluntary blood
donation by the citizenry;
2. It provides for adequate, safe, affordable,
and equitable distribution of supply of blood
and blood products
3. It includes topics on the benefits and
rationale of voluntary blood donation in the
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5. It mobilizes all sectors of the community to
participate in mechanisms for voluntary and
non profit basis
6. It requires all blood collection units and
blood banks/centers to operate on a non
profit basis
7. It regulates and ensures the safety of all

existing health subjects of the formal activities related to the collection, storage,
education system in all public and private and banking, of blood
schools, in the elementary, high school, and 8. It requires upgrading of blood banks/centers
college levels as well as in the nonformal
to include preventive services and education
education system to control spread of blood transfusion
4. It informs the public of the need for transmissible diseases
voluntary blood donation to curb the
hazards caused by the commercial sale of
blood
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Seat Belts Use Act of 1999

(RA8750)
It requires the mandatory compliance
by motorists of private and public
vehicles to use seatbelt devices and
requires vehicles manufacturers to
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Objectives:
• The driver and front seat passengers while inside a
running vehicle

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front seat of a running vehicle

• Signs should be posted instructing front seat

passengers to wear seat belts while inside a running
vehicle.

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Cybercrime Prevention Act

of 2012 (RA 10175)
A law which aimed at addressing
legal issues concerning online
interactions and the Internet in the
Philippines.
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4. System Interference – The intentional alteration or

Cybercrime Offenses
1. Illegal Access – the access to the whole or
any part of the computer system without the
right to do so
2. Illegal Interception – Interception made by
technical means, and without right, of any
nonpublic transmission of computer data
to , from or within a computer system
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reckless hindering or interference with the
functioning of a computer or computer network by
inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting,
deteriorating, altering or suppressing computer data
or a computer program, electronic document, or
electronic data message, without right or authority,
including the introduction of transmission of viruses.
5. Misuse of Devices – The use, production, sale,
procurement, importation, distribution

including electromagnetic emissions from a 6. Cybersquatting - The acquisition of a domain name

computer system carrying such computer over the Internet in bad faith to profit, mislead,
data. destroy reputation, and deprive others from
registering the same.
3. Data Interference –The intentional or
reckless alteration, damaging, deletion or
deterioration of computer data, electronic
document, or electronic data message,
without right, including the introduction or
transmission viruses.
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Computer Related Offenses
1. Computer – related Forgery – The input,
alteration or deletion of any computer data
without right resulting in inauthentic data
with the intent that it be considered or acted
upon for legal purposes as if it were
authentic
2. Computer – related Fraud – the
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unauthorized input or deletion of computer
data in the functioning of a computer system
3. Computer – related Identity Theft – the
intentional acquisition, transfer, or deletion
of identifying information belonging to
another, whether natural or juridical,
without right
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Content Related Offenses
1. Cybersex – The willful engagement of
sexual organs or sexual activity, with the aid
of a computer system for favor or
consideration
2. Child Pornography – The unlawful acts
defined and punishable by RA 9775
3. Unsolicited Commercial Communications
m- Transmission of commercial electronic
communications with the use of computer
system which seek to advertise or sell.
4. Libel – it is defined in Article 355 of the
Revised Penal Code.
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National Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice (DOJ)

(NBI)
Responsible for the implementation of Responsible for assisting in investigations
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the provisions of this Act or proceedings concerning criminal

offenses related to computer systems or
data.

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Anti – Child Pornography

Act of 2009 ( RA9775)
The use of a child in pornographic
performances and materials. It also
covers situations where a child is
forced to do pornographic acts.
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Prohibited acts under this law

1. To hire employ, use, persuade, induce, or
coerce a child to perform in the creation or
production of any form of child
pornography.
2. To produce, direct, manufacture, or create
any form of child pornography
3. To publish, sell, distribute, broadcast,
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6. For film, theaters, and telecommunications who
distributes any form of child pornography
7. For parents or guardians who knowingly or permits
any form of child pornography
8. To engage in luring or grooming of a child
9. To engage in pandering of any form of child

advertise, promote, export, or import any pornography

form of child pornography
10. To willfully access any form of child pornography
4. To possess any form of child pornography
11. To posses any form of child pornography
with the intent to sell, : Provided that
possession of three or more articles of child 12. When two or more persons come to an agreement
pornography of the same form shall be concerning the commission of any of the sai prohibited
prima facie evidence of the intent to sell. acts and decide to commit it.
5. To knowingly and intentionally provide a
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