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RA 9262

FAQ

Who are the persons protected by R.A. 9262?

The law recognizes the unequal relations between a man and a woman in an abusive relationship where
the woman is usually at a disadvantage.

The following are the persons who are protected by R.A. 9262:

 Wife
 Former Wife
 A woman with whom the offender has or had sexual relations with
 A woman with whom the offender has a common child with
 The legitimate or illegitimate child of the woman within or without the family abode

Is VAWC committed by men alone?

Women can also be liable under the law. These are the lesbian partners/girlfriends or former partners of
the victim with whom she has or had a sexual or dating relationship.

What if the male spouse/partner complains about abuses committed by his wife/partner?

He may file a complaint or case under the Revised Penal Code.

What can women and children do under R.A. 9262?

Under the law, the offended party may file a criminal action, or apply for a Protection Order either as an
independent action or as an incident in civil or criminal action and other remedies.

Who may file a complaint under R.A. 9262?

Any citizen having personal knowledge of the circumstances involving the commission of the crime may
file a complaint because violence against women and their children is considered a PUBLIC crime.

Where should cases for VAWC be filed?

Cases may be filed in the Regional Trial Court designated as FAMILY COURT of the place where the crime
was committed. These courts have original and exclusive jurisdiction over these cases.

What are the penalties for committing VAWC?

Offenders proven in court to be guilty of the crime shall be penalized with: imprisonment ranging from 1
month and 1 day to 20 years payment of P100,000 to P300,000 in damages mandatory psychological
counseling or psychiatric treatment.

What is the prescriptive period for a complainant to file a complaint?

The criminal complaint may be filed within twenty (20) years from the occurrence or commission.

WHAT IS A PROTECTION ORDER?

It is an order prescribed in the Anti-VAWC Act to prevent further abuse of or violence against a woman
and her child. It also provides them relief from said abuse or violence.

WHO MAY FILE THE PROTECTION ORDER?

Anyone of the following may also file the protection order in behalf of the victim/s:

 Parent or guardian
 Grandparents
 Children and grandchildren
 Relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins, in-laws)
 Local officials and DSWD social workers
 Police
 Lawyers
 Counselors
 Therapists
 Health care providers (nurses, doctors, barangay health workers)
 Any two people who came from the city or municipality where VAWC happened and who have
personal knowledge of the crime

SECTION 3. Definition of Terms.- As used in this Act,

(a) "Violence against women and their children" refers to any act or a series of acts committed by
any person against a woman who is his wife, former wife, or against a woman with whom the
person has or had a sexual or dating relationship, or with whom he has a common child, or
against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate, within or without the family abode, which
result in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or economic
abuse including threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary
deprivation of liberty. It includes, but is not limited to, the following acts:
A. "Physical Violence" refers to acts that include bodily or physical harm;
B. "Sexual violence" refers to an act which is sexual in nature, committed against a woman
or her child. It includes, but is not limited to:
 a) rape, sexual harassment, acts of lasciviousness, treating a woman or her child as a
sex object, making demeaning and sexually suggestive remarks, physically attacking
the sexual parts of the victim's body, forcing her/him to watch obscene publications
and indecent shows or forcing the woman or her child to do indecent acts and/or
make films thereof, forcing the wife and mistress/lover to live in the conjugal home
or sleep together in the same room with the abuser;
b) acts causing or attempting to cause the victim to engage in any sexual activity by
force, threat of force, physical or other harm or threat of physical or other harm or
coercion;
c) Prostituting the woman or child.
C. "Psychological violence" refers to acts or omissions causing or likely to cause mental or
emotional suffering of the victim such as but not limited to intimidation, harassment,
stalking, damage to property, public ridicule or humiliation, repeated verbal abuse and
mental infidelity. It includes causing or allowing the victim to witness the physical, sexual
or psychological abuse of a member of the family to which the victim belongs, or to
witness pornography in any form or to witness abusive injury to pets or to unlawful or
unwanted deprivation of the right to custody and/or visitation of common children.
D. "Economic abuse" refers to acts that make or attempt to make a woman financially
dependent which includes, but is not limited to the following:
a) withdrawal of financial support or preventing the victim from engaging in any
legitimate profession, occupation, business or activity, except in cases wherein the
other spouse/partner objects on valid, serious and moral grounds as defined in
Article 73 of the Family Code;
b) deprivation or threat of deprivation of financial resources and the right to the use
and enjoyment of the conjugal, community or property owned in common;
c) destroying household property;
d) controlling the victims' own money or properties or solely controlling the conjugal
money or properties.
(b) "Battery" refers to an act of inflicting physical harm upon the woman or her child resulting to
the physical and psychological or emotional distress.
(c) "Battered Woman Syndrome" refers to a scientifically defined pattern of psychological and
behavioral symptoms found in women living in battering relationships as a result of cumulative
abuse.
(d) "Stalking" refers to an intentional act committed by a person who, knowingly and without
lawful justification follows the woman or her child or places the woman or her child under
surveillance directly or indirectly or a combination thereof.
(e) "Dating relationship" refers to a situation wherein the parties live as husband and wife without
the benefit of marriage or are romantically involved over time and on a continuing basis during
the course of the relationship. A casual acquaintance or ordinary socialization between two
individuals in a business or social context is not a dating relationship.
(f) "Sexual relations" refers to a single sexual act which may or may not result in the bearing of a
common child.
(g) "Safe place or shelter" refers to any home or institution maintained or managed by the
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) or by any other agency or voluntary
 organization accredited by the DSWD for the purposes of this Act or any other suitable place the
resident of which is willing temporarily to receive the victim.
(h) "Children" refers to those below eighteen (18) years of age or older but are incapable of taking
care of themselves as defined under Republic Act No. 7610. As used in this Act, it includes the
biological children of the victim and other children under her care.

SECTION 5. Acts of Violence Against Women and Their Children.- The crime of violence against women
and their children is committed through any of the following acts:

(a) Causing physical harm to the woman or her child;

(b) Threatening to cause the woman or her child physical harm;
(c) Attempting to cause the woman or her child physical harm;
(d) Placing the woman or her child in fear of imminent physical harm;
(e) Attempting to compel or compelling the woman or her child to engage in conduct which the
woman or her child has the right to desist from or desist from conduct which the woman or her
child has the right to engage in, or attempting to restrict or restricting the woman's or her
child's freedom of movement or conduct by force or threat of force, physical or other harm or
threat of physical or other harm, or intimidation directed against the woman or child. This shall
include, but not limited to, the following acts committed with the purpose or effect of
controlling or restricting the woman's or her child's movement or conduct:
(1) Threatening to deprive or actually depriving the woman or her child of custody to her/his
family;
(2) Depriving or threatening to deprive the woman or her children of financial support legally
due her or her family, or deliberately providing the woman's children insufficient financial
support;
(3) Depriving or threatening to deprive the woman or her child of a legal right;
(4) Preventing the woman in engaging in any legitimate profession, occupation, business or
activity or controlling the victim's own mon4ey or properties, or solely controlling the
conjugal or common money, or properties;
(f) Inflicting or threatening to inflict physical harm on oneself for the purpose of controlling her
actions or decisions;
(g) Causing or attempting to cause the woman or her child to engage in any sexual activity which
does not constitute rape, by force or threat of force, physical harm, or through intimidation
directed against the woman or her child or her/his immediate family;
(h) Engaging in purposeful, knowing, or reckless conduct, personally or through another, that
alarms or causes substantial emotional or psychological distress to the woman or her child. This
shall include, but not be limited to, the following acts:
(1) Stalking or following the woman or her child in public or private places;
(2) Peering in the window or lingering outside the residence of the woman or her child;
(3) Entering or remaining in the dwelling or on the property of the woman or her child against
her/his will;
(4) Destroying the property and personal belongings or inflicting harm to animals or pets of
the woman or her child; and
(5) Engaging in any form of harassment or violence;
 (i) Causing mental or emotional anguish, public ridicule or humiliation to the woman or her child,
including, but not limited to, repeated verbal and emotional abuse, and denial of financial
support or custody of minor children of access to the woman's child/children.

SECTION 6. Penalties.- The crime of violence against women and their children, under Section 5 hereof
shall be punished according to the following rules:

(a) Acts falling under Section 5(a) constituting attempted, frustrated or consummated parricide or
murder or homicide shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the Revised Penal
Code.

If these acts resulted in mutilation, it shall be punishable in accordance with the Revised Penal Code;
those constituting serious physical injuries shall have the penalty of prison mayor; those constituting less
serious physical injuries shall be punished by prision correccional; and those constituting slight physical
injuries shall be punished by arresto mayor.

Acts falling under Section 5(b) shall be punished by imprisonment of two degrees lower than the
prescribed penalty for the consummated crime as specified in the preceding paragraph but shall in no
case be lower than arresto mayor.

(b) Acts falling under Section 5(c) and 5(d) shall be punished by arresto mayor;
(c) Acts falling under Section 5(e) shall be punished by prision correccional;
(d) Acts falling under Section 5(f) shall be punished by arresto mayor;
(e) Acts falling under Section 5(g) shall be punished by prision mayor;
(f) Acts falling under Section 5(h) and Section 5(i) shall be punished by prision mayor.

If the acts are committed while the woman or child is pregnant or committed in the presence of her
child, the penalty to be applied shall be the maximum period of penalty prescribed in the section.

In addition to imprisonment, the perpetrator shall (a) pay a fine in the amount of not less than One
hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00) but not more than three hundred thousand pesos (300,000.00);
(b) undergo mandatory psychological counseling or psychiatric treatment and shall report compliance to
the court.
Concubinage

Article 334 of the Revised Penal Code, concubinage may be committed in either of the following ways:

(1) by keeping a mistress in the conjugal dwelling;

(2) by having sexual intercourse, under scandalous circumstances, with a woman who is not
his wife; and
(3) by cohabiting with such woman in any other place.

shall be punished by prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods.

The concubine shall suffer the penalty of destierro.

Elements:

(1) That the man must be married.

(2) That he committed any of the following acts:
a. Keeping a mistress in the conjugal dwelling,
b. Having sexual intercourse under scandalous circumstances with a woman who is not his
wife;
c. Cohabiting with her in any other place.
(3) That as regards the woman, she must know him to be married.

Keeping a mistress in the conjugal dwelling

 By "conjugal dwelling" is meant the home of the husband and wife even if the wife happens to
be temporarily absent on any account.
 The offenders are the married man and the woman who knows him to be married.
 A married man is not liable for concubinage for mere sexual relations with a woman not his wife.
 When the mistress lived in the dwelling of the spouses for about two months, no positive proof
of actual intercourse is necessary, it appearing that the mistress is pregnant not by any other
man and that they were surprised on the same bed. (People vs. Bacon, C.A., 44 O.G. 2760)

Having sexual intercourse, under scandalous circumstances

 "Scandalous circumstances" are not necessary to make a husband guilty of concubinage by

keeping a mistress in the conjugal dwelling. (U.S. vs. Macabagbag, et al, 31 Phil. 257)
 It is only when the mistress is kept elsewhere (outside of the conjugal dwelling) that "scandalous
circumstances" become an element of the crime. (U.S. vs. Macabagbag, et al., 31 Phil. 257)
 Scandal consists in any reprehensible word or deed that offends public conscience, redounds to
the detriment of the feelings of honest persons, and gives occasion to the neighbors' spiritual
damage or ruin. (People vs. Santos, et al., 45 O.G. 2116)
 The scandal produced by the concubinage of a married man occurs not only when (1) he and his
mistress live in the same room of a house, but also when (2) they appear together in public, and
(3) perform acts in sight of the community which give rise to criticism and general protest among
the neighbors.
 The people in the vicinity are the best witnesses to prove scandalous circumstances.
  When spies are employed for the purpose of watching the conduct of the accused and it
appearing that none of the people living in the vicinity has observed any suspicious conduct on
his part in relation with his co-accused, there is no evidence of scandalous circumstances. (U.S.
vs. Campos Rueda, 35 Phil. 51)

Cohabiting with a woman in any other place

 Proof of scandalous circumstances is not necessary. (People vs. Pitoc, et al, 43 Phil. 760)
 The term "cohabit" means to dwell together, in the manner of husband and wife, for some
period of time, as distinguished from occasional, transient interviews for unlawful intercourse.
 Thus, there is no concubinage if a married man is surprised in the act of sexual intercourse with
a woman not his wife in a hotel.
 TABLE OF
PENALTIES
1.ARRESTO MAYOR - 1 month and 1 day to 6 months

Minimum : 1 month and 1 day to 2

months Medium : 2 months and 1
day to 4 months Maximum : 4
months and 1 day to 6 months

2.ARRESTO MAYOR MEDIUM - 1 month and 1 day to 2 months

Minimum : 1 month and 1 day to 1 month and 10 days

Medium : 1 month and 11 days to 1 month
and 20 days Maximum : 1 month and 21
days to 2 months

3.ARRESTO MAYOR MEDIUM - 2 months and 1 day to 4 months.

Minimum : 2 months and 1 day to 2 months and 20 days

Medium : 2 months and 21 days to 3
months and 10 days Maximum : 3 months
and 11 days to 4 months
One degree lower is arresto mayor
minimum Two degrees lower is
arresto mayor minimum

4.ARRESTO MAYOR MAXIMUM - 4 months and 1 day to 6 months.

Minimum : 4 months and 1 day to 4 months and 20 days

Medium : 4 months and 21 days to 5
months and 10 days Maximum : 5 months
and 11 days to 6 months
One degree lower is arresto mayor
medium Two degrees lower is
arresto mayor minimum
5.ARRESTO MAYOR MINIMUM AND MEDIUM - 1 month
and 1 day to 4 months Minimum : 1 month and 1 day to 2
months
Medium : 2 months and 1 day to 3
months Maximum : 3 months and 1
day to 4 months
One degree lower is desierro medium & maximum.
Two degrees lower is arresto menor maximum or destierro minimum.
6.ARRESTO MAYOR MEDIUM AND MAXIMUM - 2 months and 1 day to 6 months.

Minimum : 2 months and 1 day to 3 months and 10 days

Medium : 3 months and 11 days to 4
months and 20 days Maximum : 4 months
and 21 days to 6 months
One degree lower is either destierro maximum or arresto
mayor minimum. Two degrees lower is destierro minimum and medium.

7.ARRESTO MAYOR MEDIUM TO PRISON CORRECTIONAL MINIMUM - 2

months and 1 day to 2 years and 4 months.

Minimum : 2 months and 1 day to

4 months Medium : 4 months and
1 day to 6 months
Maximum : 6 months and 1 day to 2 years and 4 months

8.ARRESTO MAYOR MAXIMUM TO PRISON CORRECTIONAL MINIMUM - 4

months and 1 day to 2 years and 4 months.

Minimum : 4 months and 1 day to 1

year Medium : 1 year and 1 day to 1
year, 8 months
Maximum : 1 year, 8 months and 1 day to 2 years and 4 months
One degree lower is arresto mayor
minimum & medium. Two degrees lower is
destierro medium and maximum.

9.ARRESTO MAYOR MAXIMUM TO PRISION CORRECTIONAL MEDIUM - 4

months and 1 day to 4 years and 2 months.

Minimum : 4 months and 1 day to 1 year, 7 months and 10 days

Medium : 1 year, 7 months and 11 days to 2 years, 10 months and 20 days
Maximum : 2 years, 10 months and 21 days to 4 years and 2 months
One degree lower is destierro maximum or arresto mayor
minimum and medium. Two degrees lower is destierro minimum
and medium or arresto menor maximum.

10. PRISION CORRECTIONAL AND DESTIERRO - 6 months and 1 day to 6 years.

Minimum : 6 months and 1 day to 2 years and 4 months

Medium : 2 years, 4 months and 1 day to 4 years and 2 months
Maximum : 4 years, 2 months and 1 day to 6 years
One degree lower than prision correctional is
arresto mayor Two degree lower than prision
correctional is destierro.
One degree lower than destierro is
arresto menor. Two degrees lower
than destierro is fine.

11.PRISION CORRECTIONAL MINIMUM - 6 months and 1 day to 2 years and 4

months.

Minimum : 6 months and 1 day to 1 year, 1 month and 10 days

Medium : 1 year, 1 month and 11 days to 1 year, 8 months and 20 days
Maximum : 1 year, 8 months and 21 days to 2
years and 4 months One degree lower is arresto
mayor maximum.
Two degress lower is arresto mayor medium.

12. PRISION CORRECTIONAL MEDIUM - 2 years, 4 months and 1 day to 4 years

Minimum : 2 years, 4 months and 1 day to 2 years, 11 months and 10 days

Medium : 2 years, 11 months and 11 days to 3 years, 6 months and 20 days
Maximum : 3 years, 6 months and 21 days to 4
years and 2 months One degree lower is prision
correctional minimum.
Two degrees lower is arresto mayor maximum.

13. PRISION CORRECTIONAL MAXIMUM - 4 years, 2 months and 1 day to 6 years.

Minimum : 4 years, 2 months and 1 day to 4 years, 9 months and 10 days

Medium : 4 years, 9 months and 11 days to 5 years, 4 months and 20 days
Maximum : 5 years, 4 months and 21
days to 6 years One degree lower is
prision correctional medium.
Two degrees lower is prision correctional minimum.

14. PRISION CORRECTIONAL MINIMUM AND MEDIUM - 6 months and 1

day to 4 years and 2 months Minimum : 6 months and 1 day to 1 year, 8
months and 20 days
Medium : 1 year, 8 months and 21 days to 2 years, 11 months and 10 days
Maximum : 2 years, 11 months and 11 days to 4
years and 2 months One degree lower is arresto
mayor medium & maximum.
Two degrees lower is arresto mayor minimum or destierro maximum.

15. PRISON CORRECITONAL MEDIUM AND MAXIMUM - 2 year, 4

months and 1 day to 6 years Minimum : 2 years, 4 months and 1 day to
3 years, 6 months and 20 days
Medium : 3 years, 6 months and 21 days to 4 years, 9 months and 10 days
Maximum : 4 years, 9 months and 11 days to 6 years
One degree lower is arresto mayor maximum to prision
correctional minimum. Two degrees lower is arresto mayor
minimum & medium.

16. PRISON CORRECTIONAL MEDIUM TO PRISION MAYOR MINIMUM - 2

year, 4 months and 1 day to 8 years Minimum : 2 years, 4 months and 1 day to 4
years, 2 months and 20 days
Medium : 4 years, 2 months and 21 days to 6 years, 1 month and 10 days
Maximum : 6 years, 1 month and 11 days to 8 years
One degree lower is arresto mayor medium to prision correctional minimum.
Two degrees lower is destierro medium and maximum or arresto mayor minimum.

17. PRISION CORRECTIONAL MAXIMUM TO PRISION MAYOR MINIMUM - 4

years, 2 months and 1 day to 8 years Minimum : 4 years, 2 months and 1 day to 5
years, 5 months and 10 days
Medium : 5 years, 5 months and 11 days to 6 years, 8 months and 20 days
Maximum : 6 years, 8 months and 21 days to 8 years
One degree lower is prision correctional
minimum & medium. Two degrees lower is
arresto mayor medium & maximum.

18. PRISION CORRECTIONAL MAXIMUM TO PRISON MAYOR MEDIUM - 4

years, 2 months and 1 day to 10 years Minimum : 4 years, 2 months and 1 day to 6
years, 1 month and 10 days
Medium : 6, years, 1 month and 11 days to 8 years and 20 days
Maximum : 8 years and 21 days to 10 years
One degree lower is arresto mayor maximum to prision correctional medium.
Two degrees lower is destierro maximum or arresto mayor minimum and medium.

19. PRISION MAYOR - 6years and 1

day to 12 years Minimum : 6 years and
1 day to 8 years
Medium : 8 years and 1 day to 10 years
Maximum : 10 years and 1 day
to 12 years One degree lower is
prision correctional.
Two degrees lower is arresto mayor.

20. PRISION MAYOR MINIMUM - 6 years

and 1 day to 8 years Minimum : 6 years and 1
day to 6 years and 8 months
Medium : 6 years, 8 months and 1 day to 7 years and 4 months
Maximum : 7 years, 4 months and 1
day to 8 years One degree lower is
prision correctional maximum. Two
degrees lower is prision correctional
medium.

21. PRISION MAYOR MEDIUM - 8 years and 1 day to 10 years

Minimum : 8 years and 1 day to 8 years and 8 months

Medium : 8 years, 8 months 1 day to 9 years and 4 months
Maximum : 9 years, 4 months and 1 day
to 10 years One degree lower is prision
mayor minimum.
Two degrees lower is prision correctional maximum.
22. PRISION MAYOR MAXIMUM - 10 years
and 1 day to 12 years Minimum : 10 years and 1
day to 10 years and 8 months
Medium : 10 years, 8 months and 1 day to 11 years and 4 months
Maximum : 11 years, 4 months and 1
day to 12 years One degree lower is
prision mayor medium.
Two degrees lower is prision mayor minimum.
23. PRISION MAYOR MINIMUM AND MEDIUM - 6 years and 1 day to 10 years

Minimum : 6 years and 1 day to 7 years and 4 months

Medium : 7 years, 4 months and 1 day to 8 years and 8 months
Maximum : 8 years, 8 months and 1 day to 10 years
One degree lower is prision correctional medium & maximum.
Two degrees lower is arresto mayor maximum to prision correctional minimum.
24. PRISION MAYOR MEDIUM AND MAXIMUM - 8
years and 1 day to 12 years Minimum : 8 years 1 day to 9
years and 4 months
Medium : 9 years, 4 months and 1 day to 10 years and 8 months
Maximum : 10 years, 8 months and 1 day to 12 years
One degree lower is prision correctional maximum to prision
mayor minimum. Two degrees lower is prision correctional
minimum & medium.

25. PRISION MAYOR MAXIMUM TO RECLUSION TEMPORAL MINIMUM - 8

years and 1 day to 14 years and 8 months

Minimum : 8 years and 1 day to 10 years, 2 months and 20 days

Medium : 10 years, 2 months and 21 days to 12 years, 5 months and 10 days
Maximum : 12 years, 5 months and 11 days to 14 years and 8 months
One degree lower is prision correctional medium to prision
mayor minimum. Two degrees lower is arresto mayor
medium to prision correctional minimum.

26. PRISION MAYOR MAXIMUM TO RECLUSION TEMPORAL MINIMUM - 10

years and 1 day to 14 years and 8 months

Minimum : 10 years and 1 day to 11 years, 6 months and 20 days

Medium : 11 years, 6 months and 21 days to 13 years, 1 month and 10 days
Maximum : 13 years, 1 month and 11 days to 14
years and 8 months. One degree lower is prision
mayor minimum & medium.
Two degrees lower is prision correctional medium & maximum.

27. PRISION MAYOR MAXIMUM TO RECLUSION TEMPORAL MEDIUM - 10

years and 1 day to 17 years and 4 months

Minimum : 10 years 1 day to 12 years, 5 months and 10 days

Medium : 12 years, 5 months and 11 days to 14 years, 10 months and 20 days
Maximum : 14 years, 10 months and 21 days to 17 years
and 4 months One degree lower is prision correctional
maximum to prision mayor medium.
Two degrees lower is prision correctional maximum to prision correctional medium.
28. RECLUSION TEMPORAL - 12 years
and 1day to 20 years Minimum : 12 years
and 1 day to 14 years and 8 months
Medium : 14 years, 8 months and 1 day to 17 years and 4 months
Maximum : 17 years, 4 months and 1
day to 20 years One degree lower is
prision mayor.
Two degrees lower is prision correctional

29. RECLUSION TEMPORAL MINIMUM - 12 years and 1 day to 14 years and 8

months.

Minimum : 12 years and 1 day to 12 years, 10 months and 20 days

Medium : 12 years, 10 months and 21 days to 13 years, 9 months and 10 days
Maximum : 13 years, 9 months and 11 days to 14
years and 8 months One degree lower is prision
mayor maximum.
Two degress lower is prision mayor medium.
30. RECLUSION TEMPORAL MEDIUM - 14 years, 8 months and 1 day to 17 years
and 4 months

Minimum : 14 years, 8 months and 1 day to 15 years, 6 months and 19 days

Medium : 15 years, 6 months and 20 days to 16 years, 5 months and 9 days
Maximum : 16 years, 5 months and 10 days to 17
years and 4 months. One degree lower is reclusion
temporal minimum.
Two degrees lower is prision mayor maximum.
31. RECLUSION TEMPORAL MEDIUM AND MAXIMUM - 4 years, 8
months and 1 day to 20 years Minimum : 14 years, 8 months and 1 day
to 16 years, 5 months and 10 days
Medium : 16 years, 5 months and 11 days to 18 years, 2 months and 20 days
Maximum : 18 years, 2 months and 21 days to 20 years
One degree lower is prision mayor maximum to reclusion
temporal minimum. Two degrees lower is prision mayor
minimum & medium.
32. RECLUSION TEMPORAL TO RECLUSION PERPETUA - 12 years
and 1 day to reclusion perpetua Minimum : 12 years and 1 day to 16
years
Medium : 16 years and 1 day
to 20 years Maximum :
Reclusion Perpetua

33. RECLUSION TEMPORAL MEDIUM TO RECLUSION PERPETUA - 14

years, 8 months and 1 day to reclusion perpetua

Minimum : 14 years, 8 months and 1 day to 17 years and 4 months

Medium : 17 years, 4 months and 1 day
to 20 years Maximum : Reclusion
Perpetua
One degree lower is prision mayor medium to reclusion
temporal minimum. Two degrees lower is prision
correctional medium to prision mayor minimum.

34. RECLUSION TEMPORAL MAXIMUM TO RECLUSION PERPETUA - 17

years, 4 months and 1 day to reclusion perpetua

Minimum : 17 years, 4 months and 1 day to 18 years and 8 months

Medium : 18 years, 8 months and 1 day
to 20 years Maximum : Reclusion
Perpetua
One degree lower is prision mayor maximum to reclusion
temporal medium. Two degrees lower is prision correctional
maximum to prision mayor medium.
35. RECLUSION TEMPORAL MAXIMUM TO DEATH - 17 years, 4
months and 1 day to death Minimum : 17 years, 4 months and 1 day
to 20 years
Medium : Reclusion
Perpetua Maximum :
Death
One degree lower is prision mayor maximum to reclusion
temporal medium. Two degrees lower is prision correctional
maximum to prision mayor medium.

36. RECLUSION PERPETUA

See Art. 63 RPC for the imposition of

this penalty. The Indeterminate
Sentence Law is not applicable.

37. RECLUSION PERPETUA TO DEATH

See Art. 63 RPC for the imposition of

this penalty. The Indeterminate
Sentence Law is not applicable.
38. SUSPENSION

Minimum : 6 months and 1 day to 1 year, 8 months and 20 days

Medium : 1 year, 8 years and 21 days to 2 years, 11months and 10 days
Maximum : 2 years, 11 months and 11 days to 4 years and 2 months
39. SUSPENSION MINIMUM AND MEDIUM - 6 months and 1
day to 4 years and 2 months Minimum : 6 months and 1 day to 8
years
Medium : 1 year, 8 months and 21 days to 2 years, 11 months and 10 days
Maximum : 2 years, 11 months and 11 days to 4 years and 2 months
40. TEMPORARY DISQUALIFICATION - 6 years
and 1 day to 12 years Minimum : 6 months and 1
day to 8 years
Medium : 6 years, 8 months and 1 day to 7 years and 4 months.
Maximum : 7 years, 4 months and 1 day to 8 years
41. TEMPORARY DISQUALIFICATION MINIMUM PERIOD - 6
years and 1 day to 8 years Minimum : 6 years and 1 day to 6
years and 8 months
Medium : 6 years, 8 months and 1 day to 7 years and 4 months
Maximum : 7 years, 4 months and 1 day to 8 years

42. TEMPORARY DISQUALIFICATION MAXIMUM PERIOD - 10

years and 1 day to 12 years Minimum : 10 years and 1 day to 10
years and 8 months
Medium : 10 years, 8 months and 1 day to 11 years and 4 months
Maximum : 11 years, 4 months and 1 day to 12 years

43. TEMPORARY DISQUALIFICATION MAXIMUM PERIOD TO PERPETUAL

DISQUALIFICATION - 10 years and 1 day to perpetual disqualification.

Minimum : 10 years and 1 day to 11 years

disqualification Medium : 11 years and 1 day
to 12 years disqualification Maximum :
Perpetual disqualification