PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES
REPUBLIC ACTS
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AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE EIGHTY OF
THE REVISED PENAL CODE, AS AMENDED
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Section 1. The first
paragraph of article eighty of Act Numbered Thirty-eight hundred and
fifteen, otherwise known as the Revised Penal Code, as last amended by
Commonwealth Act Numbered Ninety-nine, is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"Art.
80. Suspension of sentence of minor delinquents. �
Whenever a minor of either sex, under sixteen years of age at the date
of the commission of a grave or less grave felony, is accused thereof,
the court, after hearing the evidence in the proper proceedings,
instead of pronouncing judgment of conviction, shall suspend all
further proceedings and shall commit such minor to the custody or care
of a public or private, benevolent or charitable institution,
established under the law for the care, correction or education of
orphaned, homeless, defective, and delinquent children, or to the
custody or care of any other responsible person in any other place
subject to visitation and supervision by the Director of Public Welfare
or any of his agents or representatives, if there be any, or otherwise
by the superintendent of public schools or his representatives, subject
to such conditions as are prescribed herein-below until such minor
shall have reached his majority or for such less period as the court
may deem proper.
Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: October 3,
1946
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